Heavener is a city in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, United States. It is share of the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 3,414 at the 2010 census, an accumulation of 6.7 percent from 3,201 at the 2000 census. Heavener is notable for the Heavener Runestone just external the city limits.

Joseph H. Heavener and some extra white settlers arrived, secured permits to farm from the Choctaw Indians and decided down to farm. In 1880, Zachary Taylor Ward and his Choctaw Indian wife, Tabitha Hickman Ward, moved their stock at Skullyville to the present site of Heavener. Ward died in 1883, and his widow, Tabitha, married Heavener. The couple owned the land upon which the town was established. Prior to beast named Heavener by a popular vote in 1895, the area was known by several swing names, including Prairie of the Tall Grass, Choctaw City, Prairie View, Long Prairie, and Grand Prairie.

At the period of its founding, and through Oklahoma’s statehood in 1907, Heavener was located in Sugar Loaf County, one of the counties making in the works the Moshulatubbee District of the Choctaw Nation.

Suitable agricultural land just about Heavener attracted many farmers as settlers. Other improvements soon followed. A cotton gin and a grist mill were built in town in 1885. In 1896 the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad built tracks through the town. A say office was usual in a boxcar on May 12, 1896 while complementary boxcar became the train station. In 1900-1901 the Arkansas Western Railroad constructed tracks from Heavener east to Arkansas.