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Dewar is a town in south-central Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, situated three miles northeast of Henryetta and twelve miles south of Okmulgee on U.S. Highway 266.

Dewar originated as a train depot and became a settlement founded by railroad workers in 1909; once the townsite was established, a post office opened there on April 27, 1909.

Dewar was named after William Peter Dewar of Muskogee, an official of the Missouri, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway and a member of the board of directors of the Missouri, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway Company of Texas.

The town of Dewar was incorporated in September 1915.

From the mid-1910s into the early 1930s, Dewar was a thriving community whose growth was fueled by the railroad, coal, and petroleum industries.

A cotton gin opened in Dewar in 1915, the Okmulgee Northern Railway was built through town in 1916, and natural gas-fired zinc smelters were built nearby in 1916.

Dewar reached the historical peak of its population, 1,558 residents, in 1920.

By 1930 Dewar had two schools and four churches, but as Oklahoma's coal industry declined in the late 1930s and early 1940s, the town's local coal mines were closed.

Both of Dewar's railway lines, the Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf and the Okmulgee Northern, were abandoned in June 1964.

Dewar sits in Okmulgee County, which lies within the Muscogee Nation Reservation and is included in the Tulsa metropolitan statistical area.