City Of Del City history

The City Planning Commission issued a comprehensive plan in 1949, estimating the population growth would continue to increase exponentially, and they were right.

In 1951 Del City offered to annex Carter Park to save it from annexation by Oklahoma City.

Del City officials persevered, and in 1954 a merger agreement was reached allowing Del City to absorb Carter Park.

In 1958 the scenario was repeated with Midway Village.

In February 1959 Del City adopted a charter and a council-manager form of town government.

The initial offer was turned down, but in 1963 an agreement allowed Del City to absorb Midway Village.

Del City having expanded to its greatest possible physical limits in 1964, Joined Midwest City and Norman in underwriting the Little River Reservoir Project that became Lake Thunderbird.

Oklahoma Journal (Oklahoma City), 27 July 1969.

Midwest Trophy Manufacturing, located at 3405 Southeast Twenty-ninth Street, began in Dave Smith's garage in Del City in 1971.

The Del City Historical Society was organized in 1975 with Andy Evans as its first president.

Del City (Oklahoma) News, 5 and 26 June 1980.

Kay Wilkinson, ed., Del City, Oklahoma: From the Beginning (Del City, Okla.: Del City Publishing Co., 1983).

On May 3, 1999, Del City took a significant hit when an F5 tornado passed through the Oklahoma City metropolitan area.

In December 2009, a record number of Oklahoma City voters went to the polls and voted YES to continue Oklahoma City's bright future through the $777 million MAPS 3 initiative.