Volume 11 , Issue 47

Brink, Oklahoma

Rod asks, "I was just now looking at the NOAA online weather forecast for Alva and noticed their map - which includes the names Alva, Capron, Noel, Avard, Hopeton, and Brink.

Of those names, I recognize all except Brink - and know that Noel is the location of a grain elevator along the BNSF just SW of Alva. Brink, on the Google map, is located two miles east of highway 281 at the junction where you turn west to go to the Alva Country Club. To my knowledge, there has never been any sort of 'town' there - or anything else, for that matter - at least not in my lifetime.

Two questions:
1. Was Noel ever anything more than the location of the grain elevator?

2. What is the history of Brink? I need to double-check, but I believe I remember seeing a sign along the BNSF siding that identifies it as Brink - and on Google maps, that location is precisely where the RR siding begins and then extends north.

I do recall seeing a town map for Ashley (east of Alva on an abandoned RR line) - but wonder if there was every such a plan for either Noel or Brink?Thanks." -- Here is another website showing the location of Brink, OKlahoma.
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