I found a link on the USPS site that list post offices for Washita County. While I do not think this is a complete list of every post office ever established in Washita County, it is still good to have the dates it does give.

Bessie – established 05/16/1895
Burns Flat – no dates given
Canute – est. 02/24/1899
Colony – est. 01/08/1896
Cordell – est. 10/12/1892
Corn – est. 04/27/1896
Dill City – no dates given
Foss – est. 09/15/1900
Herald – est. 11/30/1898 dis. 06/14/1902
Retrop – est. 01/12/1900 dis. 02/28/1905
Rocky – est. 07/12/1898
Sentinel – est. 10/13/1899

It looks as if I have my work cut out for me in researching Washita County alone. I was reading a book description about Washita County and it list that there are 44 ghost towns alone in the county.

From the book Washita County (OK) (Images of America):

Created from part of the Cheyenne-Arapaho Indian reservation, 1,008 square miles of rich agricultural land became home to over 5,000 homesteaders with a run at high noon on April 19, 1892. The county has a rich heritage as about 55 communities and over 100 school districts were established during the first 10 years. As Oklahoma was a territory at the time, only Congress could establish a county seat, and it named Cloud Chief, with a population of about 20 or 30, as the county seat. According to history, Cloud Chief, located in the southeast corner of the county, had several businesses established by midafternoon and a population of over 3,000 that first night. In 1900, the people of Washita County, by a vote of 1,349 in favor to 282 in opposition, illegally moved the courthouse under gunfire to Cordell, which was located in the exact center of the county. Today Washita County has 44 ghost towns, which had a post office or a community store that no longer exist.

I knew of about 10 or so towns that are considered ghost towns in the county. Now to find out about the other 34.

This is one of the more interesting stories about an Oklahoma ghost town that I have come across.  Cascorillo is more about a lost city rather than a ghost town.  No one today knows for sure exactly where this lost city is.  The only locations mentioned in publications I have read say it is 3 miles SE of Canute and 14 miles SW of Arapaho on Turkey Creek.

In 1895, a story appeared in the Cloud Chief Herald-Sentinel about the town and the gold that was being searched for the ancient Spanish town.  E.A. Williams furnished a plat of the ruins for Washita County, but it’s exact location was not given.