Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Ringwood, OK

Ringwood is a town in northeastern Major County in northwestern Oklahoma, situated at the junction of U.S. Highway 412 and State Highway 58.

The Ringwood area was settled after the Cherokee Outlet Opening of September 16, 1893, and before Major County was created at statehood in 1907 the townsite lay within Woods County.

Ringwood's first postmaster, John Daniel Branham, chose the town's name because the townsite was ringed by woods from the northwest to the southeast, and the post office opened on March 23, 1894.

The Enid and Anadarko Railway — later part of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific — brought rail service through Ringwood in 1901, and the population surged from a few families to about three hundred people.

Ringwood had 225 residents at Oklahoma statehood in 1907, and its population peaked at 497 in the 2010 census.

The 2020 census counted 401 people in Ringwood, down from its 2010 peak.

Ringwood was legally a city for much of its history before officially becoming a town in November 2005.

Ringwood maintains its own school system offering prekindergarten through high school, unusual for a town of its size, while most employed residents commute to Enid and other regional job centers.

A Ringwood Democrat, D. G. Harned, represented the area at the 1906 Oklahoma Constitutional Convention that drafted the state's constitution.