For 30 years the town was under the jurisdiction of the Washington County Sheriff's Office, after the police department disbanded and the Chief of Police was sentenced to prison. Very little business remains in the town, aside from a garage, a bank, a medical clinic, a small grocery, and sundry other small businesses. When the oil dried up, there was no other industry to support Ramona, so the town began to die out. Ramona was an oil town and was also a stop for the Santa Fe railroad. The town began as Bon-Ton, but changed its name to Ramona in 1899 in honor of the Helen Hunt Jackson novel of the same name. The population was 535 at the 2010 census. Ramona is a town in Washington County, Oklahoma, United States.
