Bethel, McCurtain County, Oklahoma
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Bethel is a rural
unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
located in
McCurtain County McCurtain County is a county in the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census, its population was 30,814. Its county seat is Idabel. It was formed at statehood from part of the earlier Choctaw Nation in Indian ...
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Oklahoma Oklahoma ( ; Choctaw language, Choctaw: , ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. It borders Texas to the south and west, Kansas to the north, Missouri to the northea ...
, United States. It is situated about 25 miles north of Broken Bow, and about 37 miles north of
Idabel Idabel is a city in and the county seat of McCurtain County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 6,961 at the 2020 census. It is in Oklahoma's southeast corner, a tourist region known as Choctaw Country. History Idabel was established ...
, off
US Route 259 U.S. Route 259 (US 259) is a north–south spur route, spur of U.S. Route 59 that runs for through rural areas of northeastern Texas and southeastern Oklahoma. The highway's southern terminus is near Nacogdoches, Texas, at an interchan ...
on Bethel Cutoff Rd. The post office was opened January 24, 1900. The locale was named after the "Bethel" in Palestine, the word being Hebrew for "house of God". McCurtain County Game Reserve, along with Beavers Bend State Park and Nature Center, are southeast of town. Historic Bethel Cemetery is northwest of town center. File:BethelSenCitizenCtr.jpg, alt=A rock building in Bethel, Oklahoma, Bethel Senior Citizens' Center in July 2009, used as a polling place File:Bethelchurch.jpg, alt=A white brick building in Bethel, Oklahoma, Bethel Missionary Baptist Church in July 2009


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*Shirk, George H. ''Oklahoma Place Names''. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987. . Unincorporated communities in McCurtain County, Oklahoma Unincorporated communities in Oklahoma {{Oklahoma-geo-stub