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Vici is a town in the northwestern corner of Dewey County, Oklahoma, twenty-one miles south of Woodward on State Highway 34 at its intersection with U.S. Highway 60 and State Highway 51.

No information survives on the origin of the town's name, but Vici is Latin for I conquered.

In February 1899, Albert Vincent received a permit to establish a post office two and one-half miles southeast of the present Vici site.

The current town of Vici was platted on September 11, 1911, when buildings were being moved to the site to be close to the tracks of the newly built Wichita Falls and Northwestern Railway, later part of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad.

The Vici M-K-T Depot, on Houser Street between 7th and 8th streets, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Vici became a prosperous agricultural-products shipping point in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.

In 1937 Vici's two-story school was replaced by a larger facility, which was enlarged in the 1980s as rural school consolidation brought new students to town.

Rail service to Vici ended in 1972, and ranching, oil and gas activity, and a large nursing home became important economic drivers in the modern era.

Vici is governed by a mayor and town board form of government.

The population of Vici was 611 at the 2020 census, down from 699 in 2010 and 668 in 2000.