Geary is a city in Blaine and Canadian counties in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The population was 1,280 at the 2010 census. The town was named for Edmund Guerrier, a scout and an interpreter for the U.S. Army.

The Place occupied by the gift city of Geary was in the past part of the Cheyenne-Arapaho reservation until it was opened in April, 1892 for settlement by non-Indians. Shuffle Huff and his son, William, filed several land claims in the area and sold two quarter sections to a land development company. A community was begun about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) northwest of its gift location. Settlers moved the town to the present site to be located upon the proposed route of the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad descent that was to be built west from El Reno.

Edmund Guerriere, of French – Cheyenne ancestry and a former Army scout and interpreter, had acquired a home allotment roughly 3 miles (4.8 km) northeast of the town. According to the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, the town pronounce was spelled “Geary” because the settlers had obscurity spelling and pronouncing the indigenous name. The Geary read out office was customary October 12, 1892.

Quickly becoming a trade middle for the agricultural Place that surrounded it, Geary was standard as a “first-class city” in Oklahoma Territory in 1902. The population had grown to 2,561 in that year. That number declined to 1,565 by the get older of statehood in 1907.