Picher Oklahoma Ghost Town Police Badge
Updated September 3, 2026
| Lot number | 377 |
| Estimate | 200.00 - 300.00 USD |
| Auction | 2nd Annual Montana Little Chief Auction - Day 2 |
| Date | September 11, 2026 at 9:59 PM MDT |
| Auction house | Davis Brothers Auction |
| Location | Missoula, Montana |
2 1/2" long. Picher is a ghost town and former city in Ottawa County, northeastern Oklahoma, United States. It was a major national center of lead and zinc mining for more than 100 years in the center of the Tri-State Mining District. Decades of unrestricted subsurface excavation dangerously undermined most of Picher's town buildings and left giant piles of toxic metal-contaminated mine tailings (known as chat) heaped throughout the area. The discovery of cave-in risks, groundwater contamination and health effects associated with the chat piles and subsurface shafts resulted in the site being included in 1983 in the Tar Creek Superfund site by the US Environmental Protection Agency.
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