Kay County Oklahoma (Historic Districts) has 6 places on the National Register of Historic Places including 2 places of National significance and 1 place of Statewide significance. Significant places include Chilocco Indian Agricultural School, One-hundred-and-one Ranch and Chilocco Indian Agricultural School, Newkirk Central Business District and Tipton, J.P., Farmstead.
The famous person Bill Pickett is associated with one of more of the Kay County historic places.
Some of the country's most noteable architects helped create the Kay County places including Edmund Bidwell and Hoyland & Smith Pauley. Prominent architectural styles found in Kay Country are Early Commercial, Romanesque and Colonial Revival.