The
Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 was the first
land rush into the
Unassigned Lands. The area that was opened to settlement included all or part of the present-day
Canadian,
Cleveland,
Kingfisher,
Logan,
Oklahoma, and
Payne counties of the US state of
Oklahoma. The land run started at high noon on April 22, 1889, with an estimated 50,000 people lined up for their piece of the available two million acres (8,000 km²).