The area around Jet was settled in 1893 when five Jett Brothers made the land run into the Cherokee Outlet and seven more of their brothers and sisters came in 1894.
The first Post Office was at Barrel Springs, which was part of the Cragin Cattle Company. In 1895 the first Post Office, known as Jett Post Office, was moved one mile south of the Albert Pike Highway. When the move was made an error occurred at the Post Office Department in Washington D.C. and a "T" was omitted and it was Jet from then on.
In 1906, Jet was moved once again two miles west to the present site where the Albert Pike Highway and the D.E. & G. Railroad crossed and was known as the Frisco town site near the Great Salt Plains in Major County later Woods County, and then at the time of State Hood, Alfalfa County.
By 1907, there were two hotels, two theaters, barber shops, a printing office (Jet Visitor), four grain elevators, a flour mill, two livery barns, two furniture stores, that also were the undertakers, three grocery and meat markets, and seven hardware and general stores.
The first high school was established in 1916 and burned in 1917 and a new one was built in 1918.
There were also racetracks and fairgrounds at both town sites and we can't omit the Legend of Sheldon's Gold...

Nescatunga -
Nescatunga is a small lakeside community located north of the Great Salt Plains Lake. It started after the dam was completed in the early 1940's. It is believed that the community got its name in the early 1970's when a group of local people and the manager of the Corp of Engineers met for this purpose. The manager suggested Nescatunga and so it was. Nescatunga is an Indian word meaning "Big Salt Water".

Sheldon's Gold
Legend of The Buried Treasure
There may be gold in "them thar red hills" near the dam site of the Great Salt Plains Lake. There is a legend told around Jet and Nescatunga about fourteen hundred pounds of gold bullion that was buried in 1845.
The Story goes thusly: Indians near the Great Salt Plains attacked some miners returning from California. After crossing the Salt Fork River, they decided to bury their treasure, fourteen hundred pounds of gold bullion wrapped in buffalo hide. The huge red bluffs, hard river crossing and irregular terrain would be easy location to find and reclaim their treasure. Only one man survived the Indian attack. He made a map of the area, and returned to civilization.
A homesteader, and part time piano turner, from Fort Cobb by the name of Carl Joseph Sheldon obtained a map of the buried treasure and made his way to the Cherokee Outlet hoping to find his fortune. Two years later, in 1903, he found the general location of the buried gold. Others had found it also, but they were on the wrong side of the river.
Sheldon found the end-gate rod that had been used as a marker when the treasure was buried. The men went to work digging, but after only a few feet struck water and quick sand. They made a core-drilling rig and drilled to what they thought was bedrock. One of the men took the sample to Wichita for analysis. While he was gone, a fellow worker blunderingly pulled the drill out of the ground. The chemical analysis had revealed buffalo hide and gold in the core.
Sheldon worked through the winter of 1904 trying to pump the water and sand out of the hole with a pump powered by a steam engine, only to have it fill with sand and mud again and again. The other men gave up the effort in despair but Sheldon worked relentlessly on, sinking shaft after shaft in the tricky quicksand, but the gold was never found. He purchased 20 acres of land and for the next 35 years searched futilely for the elusive treasure.
The Oklahoma Planning and Resources Board paid Sheldon $350.00 for his land in 1940 when construction was begun on the dam. Fifty dollars less than he had paid for it.