Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Okarche, OK

Okarche is a town that straddles the boundary of Canadian and Kingfisher counties in Oklahoma, northwest of Oklahoma City, and is part of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area.

Okarche's unusual name is a blend of three words: OK from Oklahoma, AR from Arapaho, and CHE from Cheyenne - the two Plains tribes whose reservation border ran just west of the townsite.

The Okarche post office was established on June 28, 1890, and the town was incorporated in 1905, two years before Oklahoma statehood.

The land around Okarche was historically Wichita country before 1830, and from 1867 to 1884 cattle herds passed through the area on the Chisholm Trail, driven from Texas to Kansas railheads.

The Cheyenne and Arapaho lands west of Okarche were opened to non-Indian settlement in the land run of April 19, 1892.

Okarche's population hovered in the 400s for more than three decades after statehood before climbing steadily in the late twentieth century as the Oklahoma City metro expanded.

At the 2010 census, Okarche had 1,215 people living in 468 households.

The population of Okarche was 1,141 at the 2020 census, down 6.1 percent from 2010.

Okarche covers about 1.9 square miles in total, of which only a tiny fraction - about 0.14 percent - is water.