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Sharon is a small town in Woodward County on State Highway 34, about 12 miles south of Woodward, the county seat, and nine miles north of Vici.

The community began as Hackberry, a settlement that grew up on Persimmon Creek after the Cherokee Outlet land opening of 1893.

When the Wichita Falls and Northwestern Railway bypassed Hackberry in 1912, the town picked up and moved about five miles northwest to the railroad, and the Hackberry post office moved to the new site in February 1912.

The new name, Sharon, was reportedly decided by a coin toss between the names put forward by the two families who owned the townsite land.

Sharon's best-known early citizen was John E. "Jack" Love, who served as Woodward County sheriff in 1893-94 and became one of Oklahoma's first corporation commissioners, serving from 1907 to 1912.

Sharon's population peaked at 227 in the 1930 census, its first federal count, and the 2020 census recorded 133 people in the town.

Farming and ranching have always driven Sharon's economy — wheat, poultry and livestock — supported over the years by feed mills, lumberyards, stores and a bank.

In the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s Sharon was billed as the smallest town in the world with an independent Chevrolet agency, run by Granville O. Williams, who also served in the Oklahoma Senate from 1962 to 1972.

Sharon's school was founded in 1912 and became a regional basketball power before the district consolidated with Mutual in 1967, leaving the campus as Sharon-Mutual Elementary.

Rail service to Sharon was discontinued in January 1973, more than sixty years after the town had moved to meet the railroad.