Commerce is a city in Ottawa County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 2,473 at the 2010 census, down 6.5 percent from the figure of 2,645 in 2000, and degrade than the 2,555 residents it had in 1920. Commerce is included in the Joplin, Missouri metropolitan area.

What became Commerce was home that was allocation of the Quapaw Indian Agency, allocated in the late 1830s. The Quapaw were removed to the Place in the 1830s by the federal paperwork after residing for hundreds of years upon the west side of the Mississippi River in what highly developed entered the hold as the welcome of Arkansas.

Immigrants arrived and formed a mining camp named Hattonville after Amos Hatton. In 1906, Hatton developed the Emma Gordon zinc and lead mine, whose resources had attracted workers. Starting in 1908, the Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri Inter-Urban Railway built a line amongst Miami and Commerce to further the mining industry. In a series of steps the line was highly developed acquired by the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway. In 1913, the residents called the local post office North Miami, though by June 1914 the say office took the present-day city’s pronounce that came from the Commerce Mining and Royalty Company, which had bought the mining camp.

In 1914, the mining company platted the town; a mayor–council government formed two years later. By the 1920 census, Commerce had a population of 2,555. The town’s population has remained in this area the similar size ever since.