Byron is a town in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 35 at the grow old of the 2010 census.

Byron was named by Postmaster V. C. Spurrier, who usual a postal designation upon April 27, 1898 for a town to be named Byron – after his relative, Byron Spurrier, who owned a buildup there. Originally located in Woods County, Byron became part of the newly organized Alfalfa County in 1907, at the epoch of statehood.

While the town was listed in an 1898 divulge gazetteer, its nonattendance of railroad admission caused the new harmony to build slowly at first. However, in April 1901, W. C. Edwards purchased home for a further townsite just about a mile south and one-half mile east of the indigenous settlement and within the course of a month the existing thing buildings were moved from the outmoded to the additional town site and a other bank, meat market, and lumberyard had been opened. In April 1902, the Woods County commission incorporated the town of Byron. In anticipation of the arrival of the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway pedigree that ran south from Kansas through the county, a grain elevator was build up in October. Upon triumph of the heritage to Byron on the 21st of October of that year, “the town applauded with a big bonfire, and the railroad laborers were treated to lemonade, cigars, and locally grown apples.”

After the introduction of the railroad, Byron flourished economically. The town’s population reached it culmination of 286 by 1909. Notable businesses included the Byron State Bank, two newspapers – the Byron Republican and the Byron Promoter – and both a Christian and a Methodist church. It afterward sported two hardware stores, three general stores, a blacksmith, and a flour mill.