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Hitchita is a small town in northwestern McIntosh County, Oklahoma, whose name honors a band of Muskogean Indians that had been absorbed into the Creek tribe.

Hitchita sits about midway between Checotah and Henryetta, roughly a mile north of U.S. Highway 266 and about 1.5 miles north of Lake Eufaula, Oklahoma's largest lake.

The original Hitchita settlement stood about a mile and a half east of the present townsite; the modern town grew up from 1907 along the Missouri, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway, which had built tracks through the area in 1904–05, and its post office opened in 1901.

Hitchita's population peaked at 264 in the 1920 census and has declined over the century since, falling to 88 in 2010 and 60 in 2020.

In the 1930s, the school in tiny Hitchita enrolled almost five hundred students, drawing children from the surrounding farm country.

Creek artist Acee Blue Eagle, one of Oklahoma's most celebrated Native American painters, was born in Hitchita in 1907.

Actor Will Sampson, best known for his role in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, is buried in the Graves Creek Indian Cemetery north of Hitchita.

Hitchita covers only about 0.1 square miles, yet the 2020 census counted 60 residents in just 16 households, with a median age of 52.0 years.

More than half of Hitchita's 33 housing units — 51.5% — stood vacant in the 2020 census, reflecting the town's long population decline.