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Yukon is a city in eastern Canadian County, a western suburb of Oklahoma City located just north of Interstate 40 and crossed by historic U.S. Route 66.

Yukon was founded by A. N. Spencer, a Texas cattleman turned railroad builder, who filed the townsite plat on February 14, 1891, in exchange for half the lots along his Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway line.

Spencer and his brother Lewis named the town for Canada's Yukon Territory, where a gold rush was booming at the time.

The railroad's arrival through Yukon in 1891 caused the abandonment of the nearby town of Frisco, which had about 1,000 residents.

Yukon incorporated in 1901, when it had grown from a handful of buildings in 1891 — 25 homes, a bank, two saloons, and a printing office within its first two months — to a farm trade center with a growing flour-milling industry.

Beginning about 1898 Yukon attracted a sizable Bohemian immigrant community, and it is now proclaimed the 'Czech Capital of Oklahoma.'

Yukon has held its Oklahoma Czech Festival every year since 1966 on the first Saturday of October, and the historic Czech Hall — the Jan Zizka Lodge Number 67, built two miles south of town — is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and has hosted Saturday-night polka dances since 1930.

Yukon's milling heritage survives in the Yukon's Best Flour mill on Route 66 and in the Yukon High School teams, who are called the Millers after the town's flour mills.

Yukon's population was 23,630 at the 2020 census, up from 22,709 in 2010 and just 830 at statehood in 1907, as the town grew from a rail stop into an Oklahoma City commuter suburb.

Yukon had 9,258 households at the 2020 census, and about 71 percent of its occupied homes were owner-occupied.