Abbott, Oklahoma

Abbott is a former community in Jack's Fork County, Choctaw Nation, in the Indian Territory. The site is located in present-day Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, 11 miles northeast of Antlers, Oklahoma.

Prior to Oklahoma's statehood Abbott was located in Wade County, Choctaw Nation.

Abbott, Indian Territory was granted a United States Post Office on March 3, 1897; it closed on July 11, 1899. The community, a short-lived boomtown created by the logging industry—which used its rail spur to ship timber via the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway—is no longer in existence.^[1]

More information on Abbott may be found in the Pushmataha County Historical Society.

References

1. ↑ George B. Shirk, Oklahoma Place Names, p. 3; Post Office Site Location Reports, Record Group 28, National Archives

Municipalities and communities of Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, United States County seat: Antlers City Antlers Towns Albion Clayton Rattan CDP Tuskahoma Other unincorporated communities Adel Belzoni Clayton Lake Cloudy Corinne Darwin Dela Ethel Fewell Finley Greenwood Jumbo Kellond Kiamichi Kosoma Miller Moyers Nashoba Oleta Sardis Snow Sobol Stanley Ghost towns Abbott Cohn Crum Creek Dunbar Eubanks Gee Honobia‡ Johns Kiamichi Lyceum Nolia Rodney Sardis Wilson Zoraya Footnotes ‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties