Whitefield is a town in northwestern Haskell County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 391 at the 2010 census, compared when the figure of 231 recorded in 2000. It was named for Methodist bishop George Whitefield (1714 – 1770).

At the time of its founding, the community that became Whitefield was located in the Moshulatubbee District of the Choctaw Nation, in the Indian Territory.

Whitefield’s chronicles can be traced to the American Civil War, when the Confederate Army expected Camp Pike for two thousand Confederate soldiers in 1861. The camp was named for Confederate Brigadier General Albert Pike, who had persuaded the Five Civilized Tribes to ally considering the Confederacy.

After the decrease of the Civil War, Camp Pike became a Choctaw trading post. The trading make known and the next community were renamed as Oklahoma, Indian Territory. Its clientele were not without help members of the Choctaw tribe, but next white settlers who had permits from the tribe to farm house in the Choctaw Nation. Occasionally, it was patronized by white outlaws such as Belle Starr, who were hiding from the feign in the mountains of southern Oklahoma.The Post Office wanted to amend the post because of confusion when another read out office already known as Oklahoma Station. In 1888, the local residents voted to take Whitfield as the reveal of the pact and post office. The pronounce office at Whitefield, Indian Territory, which had originally been received as Oklahoma, Indian Territory upon December 21, 1881, was reestablished upon November 27, 1888. It was named for Bishop George Whitefield, an early-day Methodist leader.