Fort Coffee is a town in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, United States. Originally build up as a U. S. Army fort in 1834, it was named for U. S. General John Coffee, a veteran of the Seminole Wars. It is part of the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 424 at the 2010 census, a gain of 2.9 percent greater than the figure of 412 in 2000.

The town of Fort Coffee traces its beginnings to 1832, when the Choctaw Indian tribe was removed from the southeastern United States and transported to land in the eastern allowance of Indian Territory (now in the let pass of Oklahoma). Most of the travel was by water, and the site of Fort Coffee became a port upon the Arkansas River.

In 1834, the Choctaw Nation petitioned the U.S. War Department to construct a fort that would End the flow of alcohol and further illegal items from flowing into their territory along the Arkansas River. The garrison succeeded in its mission and moreover built roads connecting Fort Smith, Arkansas, Fort Gibson, and Fort Towson. The army forlorn Fort Coffee in 1838 taking into consideration Fort Smith was reestablished. The site of Fort Coffee was located in Skullyville County, a share of the Moshulatubbee District of the Choctaw Nation.

In 1843, the Choctaw nation allowed the Methodist Episcopal church to pronounce the Fort Coffee Choctaw Boys Academy in the buildings. This studious continued until the outbreak of the Civil War, when Confederate forces commanded by General Stand Watie occupied the site. The Union Army recaptured the fort in 1863. Most of the buildings were burned during this time. Several little houses were built using the initiation stones.