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Roff is a town in Pontotoc County along State Highway 1, eighteen miles southwest of Ada and about ninety-five miles southeast of Oklahoma City.

Roff was named for Joseph T. Roff, a rancher who moved from Texas to the Chickasaw Nation in 1871 and settled near the present townsite in 1883 with his Choctaw wife and children.

A community developed along the nearby Blue River after Joseph Roff began leasing his land in 1885; a subscription school was established in 1889 and a post office designated Roff opened in June 1890, with Roff himself as postmaster.

When the St. Louis, Oklahoma and Southern Railway was built just south of Roff in December 1900, the village relocated to the rail line and was surveyed the following spring, and Joseph Roff became the town's first mayor.

Roff thrived as an agricultural community of cotton gins, flour mills, and grain stores, with a population of 1,079 at statehood in 1907 that peaked at 1,138 in 1920.

The First State Bank of Roff closed in 1934, leaving the community without a bank until the 1970s, and local rail passenger service ceased in 1960.

The 2020 census counted 632 residents in Roff, with a median age of 35.7 years.

In the 2000 census, Roff had 734 residents in 287 households and supported fifteen commercial enterprises.

The Roff National Guard Armory is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Roff School District enrolled about 330 students in the year 2000, serving the town and surrounding farm country.