Atwood

History

The town is named for Chester C. Atwood, an early settler of what would later become Hughes County, Oklahoma. Atwood was an educated farmer, extensive area landowner, and elected commissioner of Hughes County. He was born in July 1862 in central Texas, to natives of Tennessee who had migrated to Texas before the Civil War. In 1881, Atwood left Texas for the Mushulatubbee District of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Settling in western Tobucksy County, some west of a pioneer general store owned by J.J. McAlester, Atwood married a young woman named Patsy Ann, of the Choctaw Nation, giving him settlement rights by marriage. By 1885, he was farming of what later would become eastern Hughes County, and was enumerated in the Choctaw Nation census of that year. Population growth in the community near the Atwood farm brought a post office designation January 23, 1897, with "Newburg" as the assigned name and Henry S. Halloway established as postmaster.

Geography

Atwood is located in west-central Hughes County. State Highways 1 and 48 intersect at the eastern edge of the town, Highway 1 leading east to Calvin and Highway 48 leading north to Holdenville, the Hughes county seat. The two highways together lead southwest to Allen. According to the United States Census Bureau, Atwood has a total area of , all land.

Race & ethnicity

Most-observed species

• American Crow

  Corvus brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 1822 · Aves
  199
• Turkey Vulture

  Cathartes aura (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  168
• Northern Cardinal

  Cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  110
• Black Vulture

  Coragyps atratus (Bechstein, 1793) · Aves
  108
• Carolina Chickadee

  Poecile carolinensis (Audubon, 1834) · Aves
  105
• Blue Jay

  Cyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  93
• Eurasian Collared-Dove

  Streptopelia decaocto (Frivaldszky, 1838) · Aves
  84
• Northern Mockingbird

  Mimus polyglottos (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  84

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