Slim was an
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 ...
in southwestern
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 ...
,
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
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. The community is located six miles north of
Valliant. The community is about one-half mile south of
Pine Creek Lake and the community of
Mound Grove is one mile east.
A
post office
A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letter (message), letters and parcel (package), parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post o ...
operated in Slim from January 15, 1916 to July 31, 1933. During the years following Oklahoma's statehood, Slim's residents were economically more closely connected to communities in
Pushmataha County, as the community lay near the Pushmataha County line.
[George B. Shirk, ''Oklahoma Place Names'', p. 194.]
References
Geography of McCurtain County, Oklahoma
Ghost towns in Oklahoma
Unincorporated communities in the United States
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