Eufaula

History

In the Southeast, the Muscogee people (then known as Creek by European Americans) occupied a large territory including much of present-day Georgia and Alabama. By 1800, the Creek had a village named Eufala, located on Eufaula Creek, near what later developed as the present site of Talladega, Alabama. This was one of a group called their Upper Creek towns. Pickett's History of Alabama mentions an Indian town, belonging to the Creek, which he calls Eufaulahatche. "Little Eufauly" is mentioned by an historian of this period as early as 1792. Another Upper Creek town called Eufaula was located on the Tallapoosa River; the present town of Dadeville, Alabama, developed near there. The Lower Creek had two villages of similar names: Eufaula on the Chattahoochee River, in what later became Henry County, Alabama; and Eufala, located on the east bank of the Chattahoochee River, within the limits of present Quitman County, Georgia. In 1832 the U.S. government had forced the Creek to move to Indian Territory and cede their lands in the Southeastern United States, as part of a series of cessions they had made. They established Eufaula as a center of the Creek in their new territory. It was a frequent meeting place of the people, who held pow-wows or Indian conferences in that vicinity during the early days of Creek settlement. In the 1870s G. W. Grayson, then Chief of the Creek, his brother Samuel, George Stidham and other Creek leaders, persuaded the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railway (known as the KATY) to locate one of its stations at this site. The older Creek village was moved here to take advantage of the railroad. Eufaula, Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma), began to attract European Americans soon after the KATY railroad established a station here in 1872. The town was…

Geography

Eufaula is in southern McIntosh County and is bordered to the northeast by Eufaula Lake, a reservoir on the Canadian River. The city sits along an arm of the lake formed by the North Canadian River, which joins the Canadian River to the southeast. U.S. Route 69, a four-lane freeway, passes through the city west of downtown. The highway leads north to Muscogee and south to McAlester. Checotah is to the north via US-69. Oklahoma State Highway 9 passes through the center of Eufaula, leading east to Whitefield and west to Wetumka. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city of Eufaula has a total area of , of which are land and , or 31.55%, are water.

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Largest nearby schools

• EUFAULA ES
  Elementary · Eufaula · 532 students · 19.7:1 ratio
• EUFAULA HS
  High · Eufaula · 368 students · 14.7:1 ratio
• EUFAULA MS
  Middle · Eufaula · 285 students · 15.8:1 ratio
• STIDHAM PUBLIC SCHOOL
  Elementary · Eufaula · 107 students · 15.3:1 ratio