Crane is a city in and the county seat of Crane County. It was named after the Baylor University founder and president William C. Crane. In 1900, Crane’s cattle and sheep outnumbered its residents by a ratio of 420:1. That meant 51 people and 21,400 animals. The town was awarded a post office in 1908 and a decade later, the community has started to build roads. The county had discovered oil in the late 1920s which led to the county’s organization and the development of Crane as an oil boomtown. The oil boom also resulted in an increased overnight population of thousands of land speculators, workers, and camp followers. Thus, Mr. Ollin Columbus Kinnison established a realty office and platted a townsite, naming the streets after his children. Although water became scarce and oil resources were exploited at one point, the town managed to get up. In 1980, Crane had a library, a swimming pool, and around hundreds of businesses that includes steel foundry, a concrete plant, a nursing home, and a hospital. Oil still continues to be Crane’s main source of income.
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