Hi--My grandmother's brother, Paige Knight, and his wife Mae lived in Dilworth, Oklahoma, in 1917. Paige and his brothers all worked in the Oklahoma oil fields before and after statehood. I don't have much information for you except an old photograph of "main street" in Dilworth. It has apparently been a ghost town for many years. If you'd like an electronic copy, please let me know.

The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture says this: The oil and gas industry stimulated an economic boom in the early 1900s. As early as 1894 gas had been discovered on the Marcus McClaskey farm, southeast of Newkirk. However, he kept the discovery a secret until he could prove up his land claim. By 1902 approximately six gas wells had been drilled northeast of Blackwell. In 1910 Ernest W. Marland, founder of the 101 Ranch Oil Company, drilled seven gas wells on the Millers' 101 Ranch. However, the great oil boom in Kay County was precipitated by the discovery of oil by Marland on the Ponca allotment of Willie Cries(Crys)-for-War in June 1911. Louis H. Wentz soon entered the foray to locate oil in Kay County. The oil boom and bust created temporary peaks in population and several ghost towns, such as Mervine, Dilworth, and Three Sands.