Summit, Oklahoma: Difference between revisions

'''Summit''' is a town in [[Muskogee County, Oklahoma|Muskogee County]], [[Oklahoma]], United States. It was originally called South Muskogee when it was platted in 1910, and is one of thirteen all-black towns still surviving at the beginning of the 21st Centurycentury.<ref name="EOHC-Summit">Larry O'Dell, "[http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=SU007 Summit]", ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture''. Accessed May 2, 2010.</ref> The population was 139 at the 2010 census, a 38.5 percent decline from the figure of 226 recorded in [[2000 United States Census|2000]].<ref>[http://censusviewer.com/city/OK/Summit CensusViewer: Population of the City of Summit, Oklahoma]</ref> Summit, is located in Muskogee County six miles southwest of the city of Muskogee. The community retained a post office as early as 1896. Like many of the other Black towns previously mentioned, was a stopover destination on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway and had a depot in the community. It is said that the town may have been named Summit because it was the highest point on the railroad between Arkansas and the North Canadian rivers.