Tishomingo, Oklahoma Tishomingo, Oklahoma Location of Tishomingo, Oklahoma Location of Tishomingo, Oklahoma State Oklahoma Tishomingo is the biggest city and the governmental center of county of Johnston County, Oklahoma, United States. The populace was 3,034 at the 2010 census, a diminish of 4.1 percent from 3,162 at the 2000 census. It was the first capital of the Chickasaw Nation, from 1856 until Oklahoma statehood in 1907. The town/city is home to Murray State College, a improve college with an annual enrollment of 1,600 students.
Tishomingo was titled after the Chickasaw chief who died of smallpox on the Trail of Tears near Little Rock, after the Chickasaws had been removed from their initial homelands, positioned in and around Tishomingo, Mississippi. In 1910, the building was sold to Johnston County, becoming the county court home. The Western Oklahoma Railroad was assembled from Haileyville to Ardmore via Tishomingo in 1902, and bought by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway in the same year.
Notables buried there include two former Oklahoma governors William H.
Murray and Johnston Murray and Chickasaw Nation governors Douglas H.
Tishomingo is positioned at 34 14 8 N 96 40 39 W (34.235575, -96.677542). It is 31 miles (50 km) east of Ardmore and 115 miles (185 km) southeast of Oklahoma City. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 4.8 square miles (12.3 km ), of which, 4.7 square miles (12.2 km ) of it is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km ) of it (0.63%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 3,162 citizens , 1,218 homeholds, and 768 families residing in the city.
There were 1,218 homeholds out of which 30.8% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 43.8% were married couples living together, 15.0% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 36.9% were non-families.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 24.8% under the age of 18, 14.2% from 18 to 24, 22.9% from 25 to 44, 19.8% from 45 to 64, and 18.3% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $20,938, and the median income for a family was $28,462.
About 21.8% of families and 27.1% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 31.6% of those under age 18 and 20.9% of those age 65 or over.
Blackwell, first Ambassador of the Chickasaw Nation to the United States (1995-2013) Randy Rutherford, Former Oklahoma State All-Big 8 Guard.
Joe Adkins, Former Oklahoma State All-Big 12 Guard.
United States Geological Survey.
Enumeration - Viewer:Population of the City of Tishomingo, Oklahoma..
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
"Chickasaw Nation Ambassador Charles W.
Municipalities and communities of Johnston County, Oklahoma, United States County seats in Oklahoma
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Cities in Johnston County, Oklahoma - Cities in Oklahoma - County seats in Oklahoma - Former colonial and territorial capitals in the United States - Populated places established in 1852 - 1852 establishments in Indian Territory
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