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Stigler is the county seat and largest city of Haskell County in eastern Oklahoma.

Stigler was founded in 1889 by Joseph Stigler, who had earlier served as a deputy U.S. marshal under federal judge Isaac C. Parker, the famous Hanging Judge of Fort Smith.

The town was first called Newman, for pioneer physician Dr. Martin W. Newman, when its post office opened on April 30, 1892, in what was then Sans Bois County of the Choctaw Nation.

The post office changed the name to Stigler on May 3, 1893, because Newman was too often confused with the town of Norman.

The Midland Valley Railroad reached Stigler in 1904, the town incorporated in 1905, and at Oklahoma statehood in 1907 Stigler became the seat of newly created Haskell County.

Haskell County is named for Charles N. Haskell, a framer of the Oklahoma constitution who became the state's first governor.

Stigler's population has stayed remarkably steady for a century, from 1,583 in 1910 to 2,703 at the 2020 census; in 2000 its 2,731 residents lived in 1,096 households.

The Haskell County Courthouse in Stigler became nationally known for the marble monuments of the Ten Commandments and the Mayflower Compact erected on its front lawn.

Both the Haskell County Courthouse and the WPA-era Stigler School Gymnasium-Auditorium are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Haskell County was a major coal producer - underground mines in the county supplied about twenty percent of Oklahoma's coal production between 1950 and 1980.