Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Valley Brook, OK

Valley Brook is a small incorporated town in Oklahoma County that survives as a roughly 160-acre 'urban island' completely surrounded by Oklahoma City, bordered by Southeast Fifty-ninth Street to the north and Eastern Avenue to the east.

Valley Brook began as oil-camp housing for workers in the Oklahoma City Field during the oil boom of the 1930s, and its first residences were built for oilfield workers rather than as a planned town.

Residents voted to incorporate Valley Brook in May 1956, when the community numbered about a thousand people, largely to keep its own identity inside the growing Oklahoma City metropolitan area.

Valley Brook covers just 0.26 square miles of land, yet it maintains its own police and fire departments despite being entirely enclosed by the state capital.

The 2020 census counted 665 people in Valley Brook living in 259 households, with a median age of 36.6 years.

Valley Brook's population peaked at 1,378 residents in the 1960 census and has declined in most decades since, even as the surrounding Oklahoma City metro has grown rapidly.

Valley Brook has always been a 'bedroom' community — its residents commute to jobs in south Oklahoma City and neighboring towns, and there is little commercial development inside the town limits.

Children in Valley Brook attend Oklahoma City Public Schools, including Bodine Elementary School, Webster Middle School and Capitol Hill High School.

A tornado struck Valley Brook in 2000 and damaged the town, though no lives were lost.

Valley Brook has drawn national attention because, as of 2021, the majority of its municipal revenue came from traffic fines and court forfeitures collected by its small police force.