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Tishomingo is the largest city in and the county seat of Johnston County in south-central Oklahoma, in the Texoma region.

Tishomingo was the first capital of the Chickasaw Nation, serving as the tribal capital from 1856 until Oklahoma statehood in 1907.

Tishomingo is named for the Chickasaw chief Tishomingo, who died of smallpox on the Trail of Tears near Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1838 after his people's removal from Mississippi.

Tishomingo began as 'Good Springs,' a campsite prized for its springs along the road between Fort Washita and Fort Arbuckle, before the town was founded in 1852 and designated the Chickasaw capital in 1856.

Tishomingo's Chickasaw Capitol Building was built in 1897 from local red granite and dedicated in 1898; after statehood it served as the Johnston County courthouse and is now preserved as a Chickasaw museum listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Tishomingo's population was 3,101 in the 2020 census, in about 1,144 households, of which only about half were owner-occupied.

Tishomingo is home to Murray State College, a community college founded in 1908 as the Murray State School of Agriculture, which runs one of only four accredited gunsmithing programs in the United States.

Tishomingo Cemetery, in use since at least 1832, is the burial place of two Oklahoma governors — William H. 'Alfalfa Bill' Murray and his son Johnston Murray, the state's only father-and-son governors — as well as Chickasaw governors Douglas H. Johnston and Robert M. Harris.

Tishomingo's Johnston Murray was the first Native American ever elected governor of a U.S. state, serving as Oklahoma's 14th governor.

Tishomingo borders the Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge to the south, where Pennington Creek flows through town toward an arm of Lake Texoma.