Okmulgee is a city in, and the county chair of, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma. The publicize is from the Mvskoke word okimulgee, which means “boiling waters”. The site was chosen because of the within reach rivers and springs. Okmulgee is 38 miles south of Tulsa and 13 miles north of Henryetta via US-75. Okmulgee is allowance of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area.

Okmulgee has been the capital of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation in the past 1868, when it was founded subsequently the Civil War. The Creek Nation began restoring order later conflict. They had joined with the Confederacy during the encounter and needed to make a new peace treaty with the United States in the same way as as a result. They passed a additional constitution and elected Samuel Checote as their first principal chief after the war.

In 1869, a name office (originally spelled Okmulkee) was expected in the town, with Captain Frederick B. Severs appointed as the first postmaster. The broadcast of the proclaim office was officially changed to the gift spelling upon November 15, 1883. For seven years, beginning December 20, 1870, Okmulgee was the seat of direction of everything of what would become the State of Oklahoma, except for the Panhandle.

Okmulgee became a transportation center. The St. Louis, Oklahoma and Southern Railway (later absorbed by the St. Louis – San Francisco Railway or “Frisco”) reached Okmulgee in 1900; this route yet remains and is now operated by the BNSF Railway. The Shawnee, Oklahoma and Missouri Coal and Railway (also future acquired by the Frisco) was built from Muskogee to Okmulgee in 1902-03, and lasted until solitary in 1973. And, the shortline Coalton Railway, later called the Okmulgee Northern Railway, operated in the midst of Okmulgee and Deep Fork carrying coal from the producing areas just about Schulter, Coalton and Dewar from 1916 to 1964. Railroad projects which tried unsuccessfully to achieve Okmulgee tally the Oklahoma-Southwestern Railway, which planned to construct from Bristow to Okmulgee but lonesome made it to Nuyaka; and, the Kansas, Okmulgee and Gulf Railroad, which planned a parentage from Kansas City through Okmulgee to a point upon the Red River, but never got off the ground.