Summit

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Summit

Total population

124

Coordinates35.67°, -95.42°

Demographic figures from US Census Bureau · ACS 5-year estimates. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Summit is a town in Muskogee County, Oklahoma, United States. It was originally called "South Muskogee" when it was platted in 1910, and is one of 13 all-black towns still surviving at the beginning of the 21st century. The population was 108 at the time of the 2020 Census, down from 139 in 2010. The community had a post office as early as 1896. Like many of the other Black towns previously mentioned, Summit was a stopover destination on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway and had a depot in the community. It is said that the town may have been named Summit because it was the highest point on the railroad between the Arkansas and the North Canadian rivers.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Health (adults)

Age-adjusted prevalence estimates from CDC PLACES (latest release).

Schools

Public K–12 schools within ~10 mi from Urban Institute Education Data Portal (NCES Common Core of Data, 2022).

Notable people from here

Carrie Underwood

American singer and actor (born 1983)

Ester Dean

American singer and songwriter

Claude Williams

American musician (1908–2004)

Sarah Vowell

American author, journalist, singing songs and social commentator

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Les Walrond

American baseball player

Barney Kessel

American jazz guitarist (1923–2004)

Ed Edmondson

American politician (1919-1990)

Reubin Askew

American politician (1928-2014)

J. Howard Edmondson

American politician (1925-1971)

Sid Jordan

actor (1889-1970)

Carlton M. Caves

American physicist

Don Byas

American jazz saxophonist (1912–1972)

James Robert Jones

American politician

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Walter Thomas

American saxophonist (1907-1981)

Jay McShann

American blues, jazz, and swing bandleader, pianist and singer (1916–2006)

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Larry Winget

American motivational speaker

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Oklahoma

• Muskogee
  6.3 mi away · pop. 36,878
• Wainwright
  9 mi away
• Taft
  9.4 mi away
• Rentiesville
  10.1 mi away
• River Bottom
  10.5 mi away
• Tullahassee
  11.5 mi away
• Clarksville
  11.9 mi away
• Sand Hill
  12.6 mi away
• Boynton
  13.2 mi away · pop. 114
• Warner
  13.8 mi away
• Shady Grove
  13.9 mi away
• Porter
  14.7 mi away

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Summit

Oklahoma Rural Development Summit

Oklahoma Rural Development Summit (Team) · 1992

The summit conferences, 1919-1960

Keith Eubank · 1966

Mining the summit

Stanley Dempsey · 1986

Mining the Summit

H. Stanley Dempsey · 1986

Flood insurance study

United States. Federal Insurance Administration. · 1977

Who killed Karen Silkwood?

Howard Kohn · 1981

The interstate gourmet--Texas and the Southwest

Barbara Rodriguez · 1986

War party in blue

Mark Van de Logt · 2010

Search results from Open Library.