Map of Washington town, Oklahoma

Washington is a town in McClain County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 673 as of the 2020 census, a 0.2% increase from 2010.

Washington town overview:
Name:	Washington town
LSAD Code:	43
LSAD Description:	town (suffix)
State:	Oklahoma
County:	McClain County
Elevation:	1,112 ft (339 m)
Total Area:	1.46 sq mi (3.79 km²)
Land Area:	1.45 sq mi (3.75 km²)
Water Area:	0.01 sq mi (0.03 km²)
Total Population:	673
Population Density:	464.46/sq mi (179.29/km²)
ZIP code:	73093
Area code:	405
FIPS code:	4078700
GNISfeature ID:	1099383

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History

A post office called Washington has been in operation since 1904. The town was not named after George Washington, first President of the United States. The post office charter was granted May 10, 1904. According to the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, the name was actually chosen to honor Caddo chief “Little Boy” George Washington, who had lived nearby.

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.