Minco is a city in Grady County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 1,632 at the 2010 census.

Present-day Minco began as a pact named Silver City on the Chisholm Trail. The community was initially a amassing of tents housing Caddo, Wichita, Kiowa, and Comanche tribesmen. It was approximately 7 miles (11 km) east of the present-day location. After the Rock Island outstretched its railroad track to the Chisholm Trail, the town physically moved to the grow less of the rail stock and renamed itself Minco.
The town was originally included in the Chickasaw Nation, and is believed to be named after the great Chickasaw chief and warrior, Itawamba Minco, who vanguard acquired the reveal of Levi Colbert, and who resided upon Chickasaw home in Mississippi, near Cotton Gin Port.
Minco was officially established sometime circa 1890, several years since Oklahoma achieved statehood. The herald office opened on July 14, 1890. In its to come stages, Minco was a very busy town because of its location at the halt of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad until the railroad was extended further south two years later. Charles B. Campbell owned the occupancy rights of the house that the town was built on. His wife was Miss Maggie (Margaret) Williams, a daughter of W. G. (Caddo Bill) Williams, owner of the Half Moon Ranch, who started Silver City in 1872 by building a trading amassing for those cattlemen driving their herds of cattle in the works the Chisholm Trail.

Before the inauguration of Minco as a town, three major expeditions passed through the area. The first expedition was conducted by Captain Randolph B. Marcy(1812-1887) in 1849. Marcy was ordered to escort 1,500 individuals headed to the California gold fields. When the expedition approached the Minco Place they kept to the south side of Buggy Creek, which Marcy named “Deer Creek”. Marcy named his route the Fort Smith to Santa Fe Trail. There was a road acknowledged in 1839-1840 upon the north side of the Canadian River that was also named the Fort Smith to Santa Fe Trail. This road had been laid out by Josiah Gregg, a Santa Fe merchant who had friends with merchants in Fort Smith, Arkansas.

During the summer of 1853, the first railroad survey was conducted from Fort Smith to Los Angeles by Lt. Amiel Weeks Whipple. Whipple’s survey followed Marcy’s route from Fort Smith until they reached the Caddo County Buttes. At that point the expedition moved westward, whereas Marcy had turned north to associate the Fort Smith to the Santa Fe Trail, not far and wide north of Hydro. Whipple continued westward, leaving Oklahoma just west of the Antelope Hills in present-day Roger Mills County.