Sulphur is a city in and county chair of Murray County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 4,929 at the 2010 census, a 3.4 percent get over the figure of 4,794 in 2000. The area around Sulphur has been noted for its mineral springs, since competently before the city was founded late in the 19th century. The city traditional its read out from the presence of sulfur in the water.

This area was allocation of Pickens County, Chickasaw Nation in the Indian Territory during the late 19th century. The first known settler was Noah Lael, son-in-law of former Chickasaw Governor Cyrus Harris, who built a ranch south of Pavilion Springs in 1878. In 1882, Harris sold the ranch to Perry Froman, a part Chickasaw rancher. The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture says the ranch house was the first habitat in Sulphur.

About 1890, a society of fisherman built a clubhouse at the Sulphur site. Conventions and additional gatherings began meeting in the vicinity during the in front 1890s. The clubhouse owners augmented the building and sold it for use as a hotel. Richard A. Sneed, a lawyer who visited the Place about 1890 and soon after organized the Sulphur Springs Company. The company bought 600 acres (2.4 km) of land from Froman Ranch and platted a townsite. A publicize office named Sulphur was received October 2, 1895. The Sulphur Headlight, the first newspaper in town, began revelation in 1899, and the first telephone quarrel in town went into encourage in 1900.

In the late Spring of 1903, the Sulphur Springs Railway was completed along with Sulphur and Scullin, a make unfriendly of approximately 9 miles (14 km), connecting at Scullin to the newly completed St. Louis and San Francisco Railway (Frisco). The Frisco bought the Sulphur Springs Railway in 1907.