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Chandler, OK
Chandler is a city in, and the county seat of, Lincoln County, Oklahoma, and is part of the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Area. The population was 2,858 at the time of the 2020 census. Chandler is located northeast of Oklahoma City on SH-66 and I-44, and north of Shawnee on SH-18. Chandler was named after Judge George Chandler, also Assistant Secretary of the Interior. The St. Louis and Oklahoma City Railroad (later the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway, also known as the "Frisco") built a line through Chandler in 1898. Another railroad, the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Western Railroad (later a part of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway), built between Chandler and Guthrie in the 1902-1903 timeframe. The railroads enabled Chandler to move its agricultural products, as well as bricks made by the Chandler Brick Company, to markets.
U.S. Route 66 brought a significant amount of commercial business to Chandler, due to travelers crossing the state and the country; much of this business died out when the Turner Turnpike (Interstate 44) was built.
In 1949, the Oklahoma legislature declared Chandler to be "The pecan capital of the world."
Today, Chandler's economy is driven mostly by agriculture and livestock, oil and gas services, and manufacturing. Chandler has two lakes, Bell Cow Lake, and Chandler Lake.
