Straight, Oklahoma

{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Oklahoma, US}}

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Straight is an unincorporated community in Texas County in the Oklahoma Panhandle, United States.{{GNIS|1098576}}

Straight is located 13.69 miles west of Hooker and 15 miles north of Guymon. Oklahoma State Highway 135 passes two miles to the west and the community of Mouser is two miles to the east.Oklahoma Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1st ed., 1998, p. 15 {{ISBN|0899332838}} Pony Creek (a tributary to the Beaver River), flows past to the southwest of the community and Wild Horse Lake is approximately two miles to the north.Straight and Straight SW, 7.5 minute Topographic Quadrangles, USGS, 1967

The Beaver, Meade and Englewood Railroad built through the area in the 1929-1930 timeframe,{{cite web|url= https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1752289/m1/84/ |title=Construction Strategies of Railroads in the Oklahoma Panhandle|publisher=Donovan L. Hofsommer, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Vol. 58, No 1, Spring 1980, pp. 82-89|accessdate=December 6, 2021}} and Straight was purposely sited along its tracks.{{cite web|url= https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=TE021 |title=Texas County|publisher=Dianna Everett, Oklahoma Historical Society|accessdate=December 6, 2021}} That line was abandoned in 1972.{{cite web|url= https://www.abandonedrails.com/beaver-meade-and-englewood-railroad |title=The Beaver, Meade and Englewood Railroad|publisher=AbandonedRails.com|accessdate=December 6, 2021}}