Sedan is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in
Kiowa County,
Oklahoma
Oklahoma ( ; Choctaw language, Choctaw: , ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. It borders Texas to the south and west, Kansas to the north, Missouri to the northea ...
, United States.
A post office operated in Sedan from 1902 to 1935.
[Shirk, George H. ''Oklahoma Place Names'', Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965, p.188.] The community was named after
Sedan, Kansas
Sedan is the county seat of and the largest city in Chautauqua County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 1,000.
History
Sedan was founded in 1871. The city was named in commemoration of the 1870 Bat ...
.
References
Unincorporated communities in Kiowa County, Oklahoma
Unincorporated communities in Oklahoma
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