Welch is a town in northern Craig County, Oklahoma, United States. It is 8 miles (13 km) south of the Kansas declare line, at the intersection of own up highways 2 and 10 in imitation of U.S. Highway 59. The population was 619 at the 2010 census, an addition of 3.7 percent over the figure of 597 recorded in 2000. It is the second largest town in its county.

Welch was conventional in 1888 in the Cherokee Nation on land that D. B. Nigh leased from Frank Craig. The Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway (Katy) had built a extraction through the Place in 1871, and in 1891 it built a switch upon Nigh’s property, providing a shipping lessening for local hay and grain. The town that began to grow roughly the switch was named for a Katy railroad official, A. L. Welch. A read out office was normal in 1892. The town plat was qualified in 1902, and the town incorporated in 1909. A newspaper called the Welch Watchman began broadcast in 1902, and continued in business, although progressive renamed as the Welch American, until the mid 1960s.

A joint accretion company customary the first intellectual in 1899, then sold it to the city in 1907. The first class graduated in 1911.

In 2003, Welch had two ease of understanding stores, a grocery store, a feed store, Thomas Funeral Home, the Blossom Shoppe, a meat processor, a livestock sale barn, two cafés, a other automotive shop, two saddle shops, an assisted-living retirement home, Graham Equipment Company, and a other medical office, among additional enterprises.