Maysville began as Beef Creek, Indian Territory, in 1878. After the town moved a mile north to meet the new Kiowa, Chickasha and Fort Smith Railway, the post office took the name Maysville on September 19, 1902, honoring local ranchers David and John Mayes.
The 2020 census counted 1,087 residents in this Garvin County town, which uses ZIP code 73057. State Highway 19 runs through the center as 6th Street, heading 12 miles to Pauls Valley and 11 miles to Lindsay, and the Washita River flows just north of town.
Aviator Wiley Post, the first person to fly solo around the world in 1933, grew up on a farm near Maysville. An Oklahoma Historical Society marker at 6th and Williams calls Maysville his hometown. A detached piece of the town reaches north into McClain County around Wiley Post Memorial Reservoir.
Hail has hit hard here. On April 21, 2008, the National Weather Service logged hail of 1.75 to 1.95 inches in Maysville, with a visiting meteorologist describing stones twice the diameter of a one-euro coin. NWS records also show an EF1 tornado about three miles east-southeast of town on May 23, 2015.
The Town of Maysville decides what a reroof requires, and those rules can change. We check with town hall before work begins.