Crutcho is a small unincorporated community in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma

Oklahoma County, Oklahoma

Oklahoma County is a county located in the central partof the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The population was 718,633 at the 2010 census. The county seat and principal city is Oklahoma City...

, on the outskirts of Oklahoma City. It is located near the intersection of US Highway 62

U.S. Route 62

U.S. Route 62 runs from the US-Mexico border at El Paso, Texas to Niagara Falls, New York, near the United States-Canada border. It is the only east-west US Route that connects Mexico and Canada.Parts of U.S...

 (Northeast 23rd Street) and Air Depot Boulevard. It took its name from Crutcho Creek which flows through the community. The creek, in turn, took its name from the Crutch-O Ranch which operated in the area prior to opening of Old Oklahoma

Unassigned Lands

Unassigned Lands, or Oklahoma, were in the center of the lands ceded to the United States by the Creek and Seminole Indians following the Civil War and on which no other tribes had been settled...

for settlement.

Sources

• Peery, Dan W. "The First Two Years". Chronicles of Oklahoma. 7:4 (December 1929) 419-457. (accessed February 6, 2007)