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Coyle is a town in Logan County, Oklahoma, fourteen miles northeast of Guthrie, the county seat, and it is part of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area.

Coyle began in 1899 when the Eastern Oklahoma Railway, a Santa Fe subsidiary, built a branch line from Guthrie to Cushing through the area.

The town was named for William H. Coyle, a Guthrie entrepreneur who, as a railroad right-of-way purchasing agent, earned the chance to select a townsite and picked this spot.

Almost all the residents of nearby Iowa City moved to the new townsite once they learned the railroad would bypass them, and Iowa City became a ghost town before Oklahoma even became a state.

The Coyle post office opened on May 5, 1900, and the town's newspaper, the Cimarron Valley Clipper, published from 1900 to 1949.

Cotton was Coyle's main crop, and early businesses included a bank, cotton gins, a drug store, a lumberyard, and a photographer.

In 1904 temperance crusader Carrie Nation visited Coyle and publicly debated the superintendent of schools; immediately afterward, the town government outlawed Coyle's two saloons.

Coyle's population peaked at 440 in the 1940 census, before cotton demand collapsed and rail service ended in the late 1950s.

Today Coyle is a commuter town: by 2000 an estimated 95 percent of its employed residents traveled to work in larger towns such as Stillwater, Guthrie, and Oklahoma City.

Coyle had 350 residents living in 124 households at the 2020 census, and it sits about a mile west of where Fitzgerald Creek meets the Cimarron River.