Newkirk is a city in and the county seat of Kay County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 2,172 at the 2020 census. Newkirk is on l…Newkirk is a city in and the county seat of Kay County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 2,172 at the 2020 census. Newkirk is on land known as the Cherokee Outlet, which belonged to the Cherokee Indians until 1893. The Cherokee acquiesced to the demand of the president and Department of the Interior to sell the land, then part of Oklahoma Territory, to the U.S. government. Efforts to buy the land from the Cherokee began in 1889, but were not concluded until 1893 when Congress authorized the purchase and the land was opened to non-Indian settlement by means of the Cherokee Strip Land Run on September 16, 1893. An estimated 100,000 people raced to claim plots of land.
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