 It is named for the nearby Deer Creek, which snakes through much of the district and occasionally causes the schools to close by flooding during the spring rains.This region of Oklahoma was part of the Unassigned Lands and was settled during the Oklahoma Land Run of 1889.Before the land run began, the area was surveyed into sections by the federal Public Land Survey System, with each section measuring one mile (1.6 km) by one mile, and divided evenly into homesteads, called quarter-sections.