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Johns was a community in Pushmataha County,
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, located north of Antlers. A United States Post Office operated there from September 28, 1912, to May 15, 1915. It took its name from nearby Johns Valley, which had been named for Henry A. Johns, a Choctaw Indian land allottee.George H. Shirk, ''Oklahoma Place Names'', p. 113; Post Office Site Location Reports, Record Group 28, National Archives.


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Geography of Pushmataha County, Oklahoma Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Ghost towns in Oklahoma {{US-ghost-town-stub