Okarche ( oh-KAR-chee) is a town in Canadian and Kingfisher counties in Oklahoma, United States, that is allowance of the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Area. The population was 1,215 at the 2010 census, a 9.5 percent enlargement from 1,110 at the 2000 census.

Okarche is located upon land that, before 1830, was within the historic area of the Wichita people. The location was in territory assigned to the Creek and Seminole people with removal of tribes from the southeastern United States began in 1830. After the Civil War, parts of Indian Territory were designated for resettlement of Plains Indians. The site of the highly developed town of Okarche was just inside the eastern connect of the Cheyenne and Arapaho reservation.

From 1867 to 1884, cattle were driven through the Place on the Chisholm Trail from Texas to railheads in Kansas. Later the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad and the divulge road which would become the Meridian Highway and U.S. Highway 81 would follow approximately the similar route through Oklahoma Territory.

On March 2, 1887, the U.S. Congress qualified construction of a railroad through Indian Territory. The Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway was final a 100-foot (30 m) right of quirk through the territory and authorized to accept additional right of pretension for stations every 10 miles (16 km) of track. Railway assets would be turned exceeding to the CRI&P in June 1890. Construction proceeded southward from Caldwell, Kansas, and was completed to Pond Creek by April 1889 and to El Reno in January 1890. The railway depot where Okarche was platted was completed at that time.