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Seminole is the largest city in Seminole County, located in northern part of the county ten miles south of Interstate 40 on State Highway 99 — though the county seat is Wewoka.

Seminole was platted in 1906 after most residents of the nearby town of Tidmore moved north to the railroad, and its post office was established on February 6, 1907.

The city was incorporated on December 26, 1924, just before oil transformed it.

When the Fixico Number One discovery well blew in as a six-thousand-barrel gusher in 1926, Seminole exploded from a sleepy town of about 854 people into a boomtown of 25,000 to 30,000 almost overnight.

The Greater Seminole Oil Field discovered in 1926 was one of the most important oil fields ever found in the United States, holding an estimated 822 million barrels of oil, and it is still producing today.

During the boom Seminole became famously a morass of mud as vehicles and equipment overwhelmed its unpaved streets, and railway business through town briefly ranked third highest in the nation.

Seminole still celebrates that era with its annual Gusher Days festival in the early summer, and the oil-boom W. E. Grisso Mansion survives on the National Register of Historic Places.

Seminole State College began as Seminole Junior College with its first classes on September 7, 1931, held inside Seminole High School; it now occupies a forty-acre campus and serves roughly two thousand students from a five-county area.

The Jasmine Moran Children's Museum, opened in 1993, is a hands-on children's museum in Seminole that has drawn visitors from dozens of countries, with exhibits ranging from a kid-sized town to a space station.

Seminole's population was 7,140 at the 2020 census, down slightly from 7,488 in 2010 — a fraction of its 1920s boomtown size.