Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Shattuck, OK

Shattuck is a town in Ellis County in northwestern Oklahoma, and with 1,249 residents at the 2020 census it is the largest town in the county - about a third of the county's entire population of 3,749.

Shattuck began in 1887 as 'Norice,' a water station on the Southern Kansas Railway in what was then the Cherokee Outlet.

Non-Indian settlers first arrived in the Land Run of 1893, and the post office established in November 1893 was named Shattuck after a Santa Fe Railroad director.

The Shattuck townsite was platted in 1901, and the town was incorporated in 1906.

The population of Shattuck was 1,249 at the 2020 census, down from 1,356 in 2010; recent Census Bureau survey estimates count about 456 households in town, with a homeownership rate near 78 percent.

Shattuck is home to the Shattuck Windmill Museum and Park, established in 1994 on about four acres along South Main Street, which displays more than fifty vintage windmills - no two alike - from a 5-foot 'Star Zephyr' to an 18-foot 'Samson.'

The Windmill Museum grounds also preserve a reconstructed half-dugout home of caliche rock with a sod roof and a furnished 1.5-story homestead house from about 1900, showing how early settlers lived on the dry plains.

Six historical timeline murals depicting Ellis County history are displayed in the Shattuck Public Library.

Shattuck was historically a major broomcorn shipping point - it once shipped more broomcorn than any other point in the country, supplying broom factories across the Midwest.

Shattuck covers about 2.2 square miles, all of it land, near Oklahoma's western border not far from the Texas Panhandle.