Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Perkins, OK

Perkins is a city in southern Payne County, Oklahoma, founded during the Land Run of April 1889, when Joseph Wert staked a 160-acre claim and offered 40 acres of it for a townsite.

Perkins went through three names in its first year — Cimarron, then Italy, and finally Perkins.

The town is named for Bishop Walden Perkins, a congressman from Kansas who helped the new settlement get its post office established.

Perkins incorporated on August 25, 1891, and still celebrates Old Settlers Day around September 22, the anniversary of the 1891 land opening.

The first wagon bridge across the Cimarron River in Oklahoma Territory was built at Perkins in the summer of 1891.

The Eastern Oklahoma Railway began service to Perkins in January 1900, establishing the town as an agricultural trade center.

Perkins sits on the north bank of the Cimarron River along U.S. Route 177, just south of Stillwater and Oklahoma State University.

Perkins is the headquarters of the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma.

Frontier lawman Frank "Pistol Pete" Eaton settled in Perkins in 1889 and served the town as a sheriff and later as a blacksmith.

Eaton, who lived in Perkins until his death at age 97 in 1958, became the model for Pistol Pete, the mascot Oklahoma State University formally adopted the same year he died.