Smithville is a town in

McCurtain County McCurtain County is in the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2010 census, the population was 33,151. Its county seat is Idabel. It was formed at statehood from part of the earlier Choctaw Nation in Indian Territory ...

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. Its population was 77 at the 2020 census, down from 113 at the 2010 census. Smithville has the distinction of being the wettest spot in Oklahoma ranked by highest annual average precipitation, at 55.71 inches.

Geography

Smithville lies in McCurtain County, just east of

U.S. Route 259 U.S. Route 259 (US 259, US-259) is a north–south spur of U.S. Route 59 that runs for through rural areas of northeast Texas and southeast Oklahoma. The highway's southern terminus is near Nacogdoches, Texas at an interchange with its ...

on Oklahoma Route 4. The town is just north of the Mountain Fork River and about 10 miles north of

Broken Bow Lake Broken Bow Lake is a reservoir in southeastern Oklahoma, located on Mountain Fork River and northeast of the town of Broken Bow in McCurtain County. It is one of the largest fresh water lakes within the state of Oklahoma, and a popular tou ...

.''Oklahoma Atlas & Gazeteer,'' DeLorme, 1st ed., 1998, p. 67 The town is among a handful of towns in the southeastern corner of Oklahoma, in an area known as Little Dixie. According to the

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, the town has a total area of , all land.

Demographics

As of the

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of 2010, 113 people, 53 households, and 28 families were residing in the town. The

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was 111 people per square mile (39/km). The 65 housing units had an average density of 60/sq mi (23/km). The

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of the town was 58.4% White, 34.5% Native American, and 7.1% from two or more races. Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 2.7% of the population. Of the 53 households, 32% included children under 18, 34% were married couples living together, 17% had a female householder with no husband present, and 47% were not families. Individuals living alone accounted for 47% of households and those individuals 65 or older living alone accounted for 21% of households. The average household size was 2.13, and the average family size was 3.07. In the town, theage distribution was 31% under 18, 7% from 18 to 24, 22% from 25 to 44, 25% from 45 to 64, and 15% who were 65 or older. The median age was 32 years. The median income for a household in the town was $21,136, and for a family was $16,083. The

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for the town was $15,674. There were 61.9% of families and 45.2% of the population living below the

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Notable people

* Curtis McDaniel, politician

References

{{authority control Towns in McCurtain County, Oklahoma Towns in Oklahoma

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