Anvil, Oklahoma

Anvil is a ghost town in Lincoln County, in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.

History

The community was settled after the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889, and named for an anvil-shaped rock near the town site.[1] A post office was established at Anvil in 1892, and remained in operation until 1904.[2][3]

gollark: They do not, at least, have legally binding power and the whole "monopoly on violence" thing going on.
gollark: If it's really easy to convert some new opinion into binding law, then people will do it lots and you get badness.
gollark: And I don't trust the government much either, because they tend to grow excessively and/or do stupid/powergrabby things.
gollark: I don't really trust "the aggregated opinion of the majority" to be remotely sensible.
gollark: People inevitably want to enforce whatever their particular bizarre views are on everyone, which causes badness and require systems which create more badness.

References
  1. "Oklahoma's Strangely Named Towns". KWTV. Archived from the original on December 2, 2001. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
  2. "Lincoln County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
  3. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Anvil Post Office (historical)


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