Kingfisher is a city in and the county chair of Kingfisher County, Oklahoma,. The population was 4,903 at the time of the 2020 census. It is the former house and namesake of Kingfisher College. According to the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, Kingfisher is now primarily a bedroom community for people employed in Enid and Oklahoma City.

Kingfisher came into existence upon April 22, 1889, when home owned by the federal supervision was opened to deal by “land run”. A huge area in what is now central Oklahoma was literally “peopled” by Americans overnight. The city is situated on a allowance of the Chisholm Trail, over which millions of Texas longhorns were driven to railheads in Kansas in the years rudely following the Civil War. Extension of the railroads and unity of the gate range done this radiant era.

The town was named for an further on resident who several landmarks were named for, a man named King Fisher.

The version that opened Oklahoma Territory to non-Indian unity limited the sizes of townsites to 320 acres (130 ha). Settlers in the Kingfisher area formed two communities: Kingfisher City, on the north side of the settlement, and Lisbon, on the south side. The two merged upon June 14, 1890, and the resulting town was named Kingfisher. Oklahoma Territory was organized May 2, 1890, and consisted of the Unassigned Lands and the Panhandle. The Western District included present-day Kingfisher County, part of Canadian County and the Panhandle. Abraham Jefferson Seay, a Missouri native, was appointed as District Judge and moved to Kingfisher. In 1892, Seay was appointed as the second territorial governor by President Benjamin Harrison.