From Shirk, G. H. (1974). Oklahoma Place Names: Vol. 2nd ed., and enl. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 174: "OAKDALE. Present Mountain View, in northeastern Kiowa County. Post office established October 14, 1893, and name changed to Mountain View, October 9, 1900."
From Ethel Crisp Taylor, “Mountain View,” The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=MO028. "North of the Washita River in present Washita County, about two miles from the railroad's terminus, was Oakdale, a store and post office on the former Cheyenne and Arapaho Reservation."
