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History · Hitchita

Hitchita’s post office opened in 1901, and 18% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1970 on and the census since 1920.

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18%homes built before 1940
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How Hitchita began

When was Hitchita founded?

1901

The Hitchita post office opened in 1901, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 264 in 19202020 census: 60125 years
Founding year: the first Hitchita post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Hitchita’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

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The story so far

Hitchita, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Hitchita yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Hitchita is a town in McIntosh County, Oklahoma, United States. The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture says that the town was named for a band of Muskhogean Indians that had been absorbed into the Creek tribe. The population of Hitchita was 60 at the 2020 census, down from 88 in 2010.

Its first post office opened in 1901. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 88 to 60 (-32%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Hitchita, 1901 to 1978

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 20th century
  2. 1901Post officeThe Hitchita post office opens
  3. 1970On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  4. 1978Born hereTate Steinsiek is born here
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On the map

Hitchita on the map in 1970

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Hitchita.

Hitchita on the 1970 USGS map1970Morris sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Hitchita.

People over time

Hitchita, census by census

0100200192019401960198020002020Peak: 264

Between 60 and 264 people in every census since 1920.

11 censuses, 1920–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Hitchita’s Wikipedia page.

Questions about Hitchita’s history

What year was Hitchita founded?

The Hitchita post office opened in 1901, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.