New Cordell is a city in, and county chair of, Washita County, Oklahoma, United States. It lies along U.S. Route 183. The population was 2,915 at the 2010 census. The community was previously customary a few miles from the current site, but was moved just about 1900. It was named for a U.S. Postal Service employee in Washington D. C., Wayne W. Cordell. The ascribed name is New Cordell, though it is now commonly called Cordell.

Cordell began like H. D. Young opened a general heap about 1.5 miles east of the present town, shortly after the Cheyenne and Arapaho lands were opened for non-Indian deal in 1892. A reveal office named Cordell was customary in the same year in Young’s store. In 1897, A. J. Johnson and J. C. Harrell convinced Young to pretend to have his heap to the gift site, where water was more profuse and of better feel than in Old Cordell. The additional location became known as New Cordell. In 1900, Washita County residents voted to concern the county seat from the town of Cloud Chief to New Cordell. The have an effect on was challenged in the court as illegal, because lonesome the territorial legislature could recognize such an action. In 1904, the Oklahoma Territorial Supreme Court ruled that the county seat must recompense to Cloud Chief. A Cordell attorney, Sam Massengale, traveled to Washington, where he lobbied for a checking account to make Cordell the attributed county seat. The checking account passed the U. S. Congress in 1906.

The county courthouse was destroyed by a blaze in 1909. It was rebuilt by 1911 by the thesame architect who meant the Oklahoma State Capitol. Governor George Nigh called it, “…godfather of whatever courthouses in the disclose of Oklahoma.” The Washita County Courthouse is listed upon the National Register of Historic Places. In 1911, the Carnegie Foundation approved a agree to construct what became known as the Cordell Carnegie Community Library.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.5 square miles (6.5 km), all land. The city is located nearly in the middle of the county.