Pawnee (Pawnee: Paári, Iowa-Oto: Páñi Chína) is a city and county seat of Pawnee County, Oklahoma, United States. The town is northeast of Stillwater at the junction of U.S. Route 64 and State Highway 18.

It was named for the Pawnee tribe, which was relocated to this Place between 1873 and 1875. The population was 2,190 at the 2010 census, a fade away of 1.5 percent from the figure of 2,230 recorded in 2000.

The Pawnee Agency and Pawnee Boarding School were normal after the Pawnee tribe came to this Place in 1875. The Pawnee Agency was designated as a read out office upon May 4, 1876. The area was opened to non-Indian settlers on September 16, 1893, during the Cherokee Outlet Opening. Townsite Number Thirteen (later Pawnee) had been designated as the interim county seat. The herald office was redesignated from Pawnee Agency to Pawnee upon October 26, 1893. The town incorporated upon April 16, 1894. On September 9, 1895, the townspeople dedicated a stone county courthouse.

The Eastern Oklahoma Railway, which unconventional became allocation of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, built a line through Pawnee along with 1900 and 1902. In 1902, the Arkansas Valley and Western Railway (later the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway) also built a stock through the city. The railroads enabled Pawnee to produce as an agricultural trade center. The population was 1,943 at statehood in 1907.