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Valliant is a town in McCurtain County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 754 at the 2010 census.

Valliant town overview:
Name:	Valliant town
LSAD Code:	43
LSAD Description:	town (suffix)
State:	Oklahoma
County:	McCurtain County
Elevation:	518 ft (158 m)
Total Area:	1.94 sq mi (5.01 km²)
Land Area:	1.93 sq mi (5.00 km²)
Water Area:	0.01 sq mi (0.02 km²)
Total Population:	819
Population Density:	424.57/sq mi (163.91/km²)
ZIP code:	74764
Area code:	580
FIPS code:	4076650

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History

Valliant was founded June 2, 1902, in what was the Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, and named for Frank W. Valliant, a chief divisional engineer for the Arkansas and Choctaw Railway then being constructed in the area. At the time of its founding, Valliant was located in Towson County, a part of the Apukshunnubbee District, one of three administrative super-regions comprising the Choctaw Nation.

A cotton gin opened in 1903, and continued operation until the 1930s. In 1904, the town incorporated and elected its first mayor. A newspaper began publishing in 1905. Before 1920, the community had two banks, three hotels and nearly 20 other businesses.

Dierks Forests, Inc., known until 1954 as the Dierks Lumber and Coal Company and originally known as Choctaw Lumber Co., was a timber harvesting and processing company primarily in Oklahoma and Arkansas which started with a purchase of forest in 1903 near Valliant. The company grew to own 1.75 million acres of timberland, making it one of the largest family-owned landholding entities in the United States before it was sold to the Weyerhaeuser Company in 1969.

Pine Creek Dam was built nearby in the 1960s to control flooding along the stream. Pine Creek Lake and the Pine Creek Wildlife Management Area, directly north of town, have attracted vacationers.

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Geography

The town is located in southwestern McCurtain County on U.S. Route 70, 3 miles (4.8 km) from the Choctaw – McCurtin county line. It is 6 miles (9.7 km) north of the Red River and the Oklahoma-Texas state line. Idabel is 15 miles (24 km) southeast on Route 70.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.8 square miles (2.1 km), all land.