Settlement of Gage began in 1893 with the opening of the Cherokee Strip. It incorporated in 1904, and named for a Chicago railroad financier.
In 1901, the opening of the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache lands brought Volga German farmers to the area.
Originally called Oleta, the name of the town was changed to Fargo in 1905. The area around Fargo had been populated as a result of the 1893 Cherokee Strip Land Rush.
Volga German families settled in and around Fargo, Oklahoma.
The town of Buffalo was staked out in 1907 and became the county seat the following year. It was named after nearby Buffalo Creek.
In 1892-1893, Volga German families from Lehigh, Kansas, settled in Bessie, Oklahoma.
The town of Alva was established in 1893 as a land rush office along the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway. It was named for railroad attorney Alva Adams who had become the governor of Colorado.
Wauseon was first settled along the newly laid Michigan Southern Air Railway in 1853. It was named after the native chief, Wauseon, who once lived in the county. Because of the railroad, the village soon grew larger than the county seat Ottokee, and took over as county seat in 1869.
In 1886, a group of Volga German immigrants from Dönhof settled in Wauseon in northwestern Ohio.
Immigrants from Dönhof and Norka settled in Pettisville and the surrounding area, southwest of Wauseon, as early as 1877.
Volga Germans from Moor settled in Lorain, Ohio.
The settlement of Volga Germans in Cincinnati dates from the late 1880s, most of whom came from Grimm.
The ship City of Brussels arrived in New York from Liverpool on 28 June 1875 carrying the Schreiber and Müller families from Norka. They went first to Bluffton, Ohio, a town located on the border of Allan and Hancock Counties, and then continued on to Nebraska.
There are many Mennonite families who settled in and around Bluffton, Ohio.