Lehigh is a city in Coal County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 356 at the 2010 census.

Lehigh began as the first mining camp in what is now Coal County, Oklahoma. At the get older of its founding Lehigh was located in Atoka County, Choctaw Nation. It was originally named Boone, but the declare was misused to Lehigh. The supplementary name was taken from Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, a coal mining region.

A make known office opened in Lehigh, Indian Territory upon April 4, 1882, and several railroads built lines to Lehigh, including the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway, and the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway. During the late-19th and early-20th centuries, Lehigh was a growing treaty which greatly profited from the coal mines surrounding it. During the 1910s and 1920s, the demand for coal lessened as railroads switched to oil-powered trains. The mines eventually closed, and in the in advance 1920s, boll weevils destroyed the cotton crops in the area. Many businesses closed, and people left the town. The Merchants National Bank Building in Lehigh is the solitary structure that remains from the afterward prosperous downtown area.

Lehigh is located in southeastern Coal County at 34°28′12″N 96°13′7″W / 34.47000°N 96.21861°W / 34.47000; -96.21861 (34.470084, -96.218578). U.S. Route 75 passes through the city, leading north 5 miles (8 km) to Coalgate, the county seat, and southeast 9 miles (14 km) to Atoka.