Transcribed from volume II of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar.

Oketo, an incorporated town of Marshall county, is located in Oketo township on the Union Pacific R. R. and the Big Blue river, 10 miles north of Marysville, the county seat. It has banking facilities, express and telegraph offices, and a postoffice with one rural route. The population in 1910 was 253. Oketo was a trading point in the early '60s, and for a time the main line of the overland stage route ran that way. It was incorporated in 1870.

Page 386 from volume II of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar. Transcribed July 2002 by Carolyn Ward.