Adel is an
unincorporated community in northwestern
Pushmataha County
Pushmataha County is a county in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2010 census, the population was 11,572. Its county seat is Antlers.
The county was created at statehood from part of the former territory of the C ...
,
Oklahoma
Oklahoma (; Choctaw language, Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the nor ...
, United States, 12 miles west of
Clayton. Adel is located at .
Using the
Public Land Survey System commonly in use in Oklahoma, its coordinates are T13-3S-R16E.
Prior to Oklahoma's statehood, Adel was located in
Jack's Fork County, a part of the
Pushmataha District Pushmataha District was one of three administrative super-regions comprising the former Choctaw Nation in the Indian Territory. Also called the Third District, it encompassed the southwestern one-third of the nation.
The Pushmataha District was ...
of the Choctaw Nation.
Adel,
Indian Territory, was granted a
United States Post Office on June 3, 1907. It closed on November 15, 1954. Adel is isolated; the nearest communities are
Daisy and
Goss
Goss may refer to:
Places
* Goss, Georgia, a place in Georgia, United States
* Goss, Mississippi, United States
* Goss, Missouri, United States
*Göss Abbey (Stift Göß), Leoben, Austria
*Goss Moor, Cornwall, United Kingdom
*Goss Stadium at ...
in
Atoka County. Goss had a larger school, and Goss Schoolhouse still stands as a sturdy testament to its more prosperous times.
No landmarks remain extant in Adel except for a small cemetery containing five graves. Only one grave, that of a county sheriff from the old
Choctaw Nation, bears a marker and it is dated 1880.
[''Pushmataha County Cemeteries'', p. 105.]
Adel's relative isolation was broken with the opening of the
Indian Nation Turnpike in 1970, which features an
interchange for Daisy. Upon completion of
Sardis Lake, near Clayton, the state opened a paved highway,
Oklahoma State Highway 43, from the Daisy interchange on the Turnpike to Sardis Lake, passing over its dam to meet
Oklahoma State Highway 2.
At this writing, tourism at the lake has not been vigorously promoted and the lake does not generate much tourist traffic, either through Adel or elsewhere. That, however, may yet come to pass.
More information on Adel may be found in the
Pushmataha County Historical Society
The Pushmataha County Historical Society is a historical society devoted to collecting and preserving the history of Pushmataha County, Oklahoma. It is headquartered in the historic Frisco Depot in Antlers, Oklahoma, which it operates as a public ...
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References
Unincorporated communities in Oklahoma
Unincorporated communities in Pushmataha County, Oklahoma
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