Pond Creek is a city in Grant County, Oklahoma, United States, along the Salt Fork Arkansas River. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 856, a 4.5 percent fade away from the figure of 896 in 2000.

Before people of European stock came upon the scene, the region on the order of the gift town of Pond Creek was traversed by many of the nomadic Native Americans of the Great Plains. Although the land is now heavily agricultural there are still traces of campsites along the numerous creeks of the drainage of the Salt Fork of the Arkansas River. When many of the Native American groups were moved onto reservations in what is now Oklahoma, towns and trading posts were established. Eventually the present-day Oklahoma was estranged into Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory. The chronicles of Pond Creek and the surrounding Place can be easily embarrassed with extra streams called Pond Creek (see e.g.). The gift community of Pond Creek is located in what is called the Cherokee Strip, more properly known as the Cherokee Outlet. The estate at the confluence of Osage Creek and Pond Creek was known as the Pond Creek Stockade upon the original Chisholm Trail used by cattle drivers bringing herds of Texas longhorns north to the railroad head first at Abilene, Kansas then far ahead to Wichita and Caldwell.
This location is very nearly 4 miles north of the present town of Pond Creek near the gift village of Jefferson. Two markers have been placed in this area commemorating the untimely demise of two cowboys. There are two granite markers placed near Pond Creek on the old-fashioned Chisholm Trail.

In 1887, the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway built a branch pedigree north-south from Caldwell, Kansas to Pond Creek in 1888. By 1893, it was incrementally built to Fort Worth, Texas. It was foreclosed on in 1891 and taken greater than by Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway, which shut-down in 1980. The Kansas-Texas mainline was sold to a additional of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad as the Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas Railroad, merging in 1988 next Missouri Pacific Railroad, which multipart in 1997 once Union Pacific Railroad. Most locals still refer to this railroad as the “Rock Island.”

Pond Creek was approved as a town during the Cherokee Strip Land Run in 1893. According to the Chronicles of Oklahoma, “The giving out townsite of Pond Creek was first entered at 2:10 upon the daylight of the run. By evening, it contained some 8,000 inhabitants, and boasted a good hotel, several restaurants, a dozen deed offices, two general stores and six or seven grocery stores.” The settlers soon found that there was not ample water to preserve the additional town; the government had dug wells for all of the giving out townsites, including Pond Creek, but all the water in Pond Creek’s competently was quickly used up. Soldiers dug a new competently but found single-handedly salt water. Water from the Salt Fork River was brought to Pond Creek and sold for five cents a cup, but it was not fit for human or animal consumption. Beer became a exaggerated commodity, selling for fifty to seventy-five cents a bottle. Water from stagnant creek pools was resolved to animals. The Place also experienced a violent sand storm and wildfires.