Yukon, Oklahoma – The Festival Capital with Small-Town Charm

Nestled just west of Oklahoma City, you will find a city that “has everything,” yet still has that small town feel. That city is Yukon, Oklahoma — who’s population of about 40,000 is concentrated on the south banks of the North Canadian River (or just Canadian River for short). Informally known as the Festival Capital of Oklahoma, Yukon is home to one of the largest and oldest annual Czech festivals in the country. Other festivals include the Yukon Freedom Fest, and the Chisholm Trail Festival — which celebrates the great Texas cattle drives (the largest migration of livestock in history).

Route 66 mural at the Yukon Mill & Grain Company (Photo credit: City of Yukon)

Yukon was originally home to a buffalo trace, which is a cluster of paths that became the precursor to modern-day roads such as Route 66, which runs directly through the heart of Yukon. Even though Route 66 may not be traveled quite as often in some places, that doesn’t mean Yukon’s best days are behind them. The City of Yukon has adopted the mantra of “Yukon’s Best”, a tribute and play on the words “Yukon’s Best Flour”, which can be seen from miles away on the historic flour mill that still stands on Route 66. Speaking of Yukon’s Best, Yukon is also home to one of the greatest country singers of all-time in Garth Brooks, who has called Yukon, “The best place to grow up in the whole world.”

Visit the Yukon, OK MapGeo Site

How Yukon is Putting MapGeo to Work

The City of Yukon implemented their MapGeo site in March of 2018. For the past 5 years, they have continued to expand their site with additional and interesting new themes. While they have many of the standard datasets like parcels, addresses, zoning, districts, wards, floodplains, and land use; they also have sewer and water utilities available to the public on their MapGeo site. Some of the unique themes they have added to their site are sanitation route areas (trash collection by day), school districts, snow plow routes, and subdivisions. The subdivision theme has been configured with a pop up with a link to the City’s website to the original subdivision map!

Yukon’s subdivision theme on MapGeo with the pop up to the link to the City’s subdivision map.

“We hear from our customers that having the interactive map available on our website helps them with accessing data.  You are able to see the Plats and parcel information.  It has truly given the end user a lot of data right at their fingertips.” – Mitchell Hort, Yukon Planning Dept