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Skedee is located in Pawnee county. Originally known as Lemert for the family who sold land to the railroad company for a townsite. The Eastern Oklahoma townsite company sold town lots at auction on January 17th and 18th 1902 and a post office was designated on February 10th 1902. The name Lemert was too similar to another Oklahoma town so the postal department requested the post office name be changed, consequently Lemert became Skedee, a reference to the Skidi band of the Pawnee.