Yeager is a town in Hughes County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 75 at the 2010 census. Developed in the further on 1900s, the town grew subsequently the back up of an oil and gas field, but has always had a low population.

According to the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture the present community was named for a Creek allottee, Hattie Yargee. The town was developed along the St. Louis, Oklahoma and Southern Railway, which was built between 1900 and 1901. When a say office was established upon February 6, 1902, the Post Office Department untouched the spelling of the office to the present Yeager. An oil and gas ground opened in the town in 1917 and helped maintain the railroad industry in the 1920s.

In 1917, the Yeager Oil Field opened, producing 25 to 2500 barrels of oil per day. As the Yeager auditorium developed during the 1920s, the railroad’s revenue dramatically increased by transporting lumber, rig timber, and oil-field equipment to the community. By 1918 citizens had normal a Baptist Church and a Church of Christ. In 1918 R. L. Polk’s Oklahoma State Gazetteer and Business Directory estimated Yeager’s population at 350.

In the mid-1940s Fred A. Ashburn and C. D. Wood operated grocery and filling stations. By the mid-1950s Yeager had a grocery and a filling station. After a blaze destroyed the college building on January 18, 1957, voters ascribed a grip issue to rebuild the facility.