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Morrison is a town in southeastern Noble County on U.S. Highway 64, sixteen miles east of the county seat, Perry.

Morrison emerged in 1894 in the former Cherokee Outlet, land created for the Cherokee Nation in 1835 from former Osage hunting grounds and opened to non-Indian settlement by the Cherokee Strip Land Run of September 1893.

The community's post office was first designated Autry in 1893 and renamed Morrison in February 1894 after James Morrison bought the local store; the townsite land belonged to his wife, Roselda Morrison.

James Morrison donated forty acres for a town, which was surveyed and platted in August 1894, and Morrison incorporated on August 13, 1894.

Morrison's business district moved a short distance south in 1902 when the Arkansas Valley and Western Railroad, later part of the Frisco system, laid its Tulsa-to-Enid line through the town.

Morrison prospered as an agricultural trade center for wheat farmers and ranchers, with a population of 351 at Oklahoma statehood in 1907.

Morrison's population rebounded to 671 in 1980 with a revival of oil production, reached 733 in 2010, and stood at 723 in the 2020 census.

In the 2000 census, Morrison had 636 residents living in 255 households within just 0.6 square miles.

Morrison High School's Wildcats are a small-school football dynasty, having won thirteen eight-man state championships plus a Class A state title in 2008.

The Morrison Baptist Church is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.