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Washington
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928
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Overview
Washington is a town in McClain County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 673 as of the 2020 census.
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History
While some sources list the town as having been named after George Washington, first president of the United States, the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture relates a "popular local story" that the name was actually chosen to honor Caddo chief "Little Boy" George Washington, who had lived nearby. A post office called Washington has been in operation since 1904. The post office charter was granted May 10, 1904. When the Oklahoma Central Railway was built through McClain County in 1907, local resident Hoyt Turner and his Chickasaw-Choctaw wife, Daisy Willis, petitioned the federal court at Muskogee to remove the restrictions from a surplus allotment east of their farm so that a townsite could be established. The request was approved on December 24, 1907, shortly after statehood became effective, and Washington became the first townsite to have tribal restrictions removed for that reason.
Geography
Washington is in central McClain County, located along State Highway 24. It is by road northwest of Purcell, and south of Oklahoma City. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which , or 0.88%, are water. Walnut Creek, a southeast-flowing tributary of the Canadian River, runs along the northern edge of the town.
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Nearby places in Oklahoma
- Purcell7 mi away · pop. 6,803
- Lexington9.2 mi away · pop. 1,972
- Blanchard12 mi away · pop. 9,215
- Slaughterville12.1 mi away
- Wayne13.7 mi away
- Norman15.2 mi away · pop. 131,008
- Moore18.9 mi away · pop. 63,420
- Rosedale19.7 mi away
- Paoli20.4 mi away
- Tribbey22 mi away · pop. 423
- Tuttle23.3 mi away
- Amber23.3 mi away · pop. 445
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