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Piedmont is a fast-growing city in northeastern Canadian County, with a small portion extending into Kingfisher County, about 10 miles north of Yukon in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area.

Piedmont was founded in 1903 by Dr. E. H. Long on land claimed in the Unassigned Lands during the Land Run of April 22, 1889; the founders nearly named it 'Mildred' before choosing Piedmont, Italian for 'foot of the hills.'

Piedmont's early growth was driven by the St. Louis, El Reno and Western Railway, which made it an agricultural market center until the railroad stopped running in 1924.

For most of the twentieth century Piedmont was a tiny farm town: it counted just 120 residents in 1950 and 269 in 1970.

Development of the Northwest Expressway (State Highway 3) turned Piedmont into a bedroom community for Oklahoma City, and the population exploded by 649 percent in the 1970s alone, reaching 2,016 in 1980.

The 2020 census counted 7,402 people in Piedmont, up from 5,720 in 2010 and just 3,650 in 2000, and Census Bureau estimates put the city above 9,400 by 2025, keeping it among Oklahoma's fastest-growing communities.

Piedmont households are larger than the national norm, averaging about 2.9 people per household according to Census Bureau QuickFacts.

Piedmont operates as a home rule city under a council-manager form of government, unusual for an Oklahoma community of its size.

The city spreads across more than 40 square miles of rolling plains in Canadian County, much of it still farmland and pasture between new subdivisions.

Piedmont residents are served by Piedmont Public Schools, a district that has repeatedly expanded and rebuilt campuses to keep up with the city's suburban boom.