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Warwick is a small town in western Lincoln County, Oklahoma, lying on State Highway 66 — historic Route 66 — eight miles west of Chandler, the county seat.

Warwick was named for Warwick, the county town in England.

The town was established by the Monarch Investment Company on September 18, 1903, on land homesteaded by David M. and Norah High, who had claimed it in the 1891 Sac and Fox land opening.

Postal service reached the Warwick area early: a post office opened on October 26, 1892, with J. A. Ramsey as the first postmaster.

Warwick stood at the crossing of two railroads, the Frisco and the Fort Smith and Western, and cotton farming and rail shipping drove its early economy.

When U.S. Route 66 was created in 1926, the Mother Road ran through Warwick, and the town's Seaba Station — a vintage filling station and machine shop — is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Warwick did not incorporate until 1963, when residents, fearing annexation by a neighboring town, incorporated some 1,800 acres covering their school district, briefly making Warwick the largest town in Lincoln County by area; the school still consolidated with Wellston's in 1968.

The 2020 census counted 164 residents in Warwick living in 68 households, with a median age of 46 years.

Warwick was bigger at the turn of the century — the 2000 census counted 235 residents — and the town covers about 2.7 square miles, with Interstate 44 passing its north side and U.S. Route 177 along its west side.