Beaver is a town and county chair in Beaver County, Oklahoma, United States. The community is in the Oklahoma Panhandle. As of the 2010 census, the town population was 1,515, a 3.5 percent fade away from 1,570 at the 2000 census. The city is host to the annual World Cow Chip Throwing Championship. Held in April, “Cow Chip” brings attention from user-friendly cities once a parade, carnival, and cowchip throwing.

Beaver is located by Beaver River, also known as North Canadian River, and began as the location of a fur-trading publish in 1879. Its indigenous name was Beaver City, and was planned to be the capital of the short-lived Cimarron Territory. The Federal organization never ascribed the proposed Territory, but Beaver City remained the center of matter and take steps enforcement for the area. In 1890, the territory was assigned to Oklahoma Territory, and Beaver City became the chair for the whole Oklahoma Panhandle, then known as Seventh County.

Beaver began as a End on the Jones and Plummer Trail. In 1880, Jim Lane built a home on the south side of Beaver Creek, that as a consequence served as a general store, saloon, hotel, and restaurant. Beaver slowly sprouted along the banks of Beaver Creek. The first pronounce office had been established on the north side of the river in 1883. In 1884 Lane moved the read out office to his accretion and became the postmaster. He also other a corral and livery stable to accommodate freighters and cattle drivers. The Presbyterian Church was built in 1887. It is listed upon the National Register of Historic Places as “”the oldest church in Oklahoma Territory”. The Groves Hotel (later renamed the Thompson Hotel) was said to be the first concern in town, when it was built in 1885. In 1891, Carter Tracy opened a general hardware and implement store. The first newspaper, the Territorial Advocate, began printing in 1887.

Although the Oklahoma Panhandle is noted for its want of rainfall, it is occasionally subjected to flash floods. One such business occurred in advance in Beaver’s history, and flooded Main Street, where many of the businesses had been built. Another street, Douglas, had already been built, running south happening a hill from the river, where the businesses relocated to prevent a recurrence.