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Whitefield is a small town in northwestern Haskell County, Oklahoma, named for the famed Methodist bishop and evangelist George Whitefield (1714–1770).

Whitefield's history traces to 1861, when the Confederate Army established Camp Pike here for some two thousand soldiers — a camp named for Brigadier General Albert Pike, who had persuaded the Five Civilized Tribes to ally with the Confederacy.

After the Civil War, Camp Pike became a Choctaw trading post, and the community was first known simply as Oklahoma, Indian Territory — its post office opened under that name on December 21, 1881.

Because the name Oklahoma was confused with another post office called Oklahoma Station, residents voted in 1888 to rename the settlement for Bishop Whitefield, and the post office was reestablished as Whitefield on November 27, 1888.

At its founding, the community lay in the Moshulatubbee District of the Choctaw Nation, on high ground south of the Canadian River.

By 1911 Whitefield counted approximately 500 residents, with two groceries, two general stores, a cotton gin and mill, a drugstore, a doctor and a blacksmith serving the nearby farms.

Whitefield did not incorporate until 1978, so its first federal census, in 1980, recorded just 240 people after the population had declined sharply during the Great Depression.

The 2020 census counted 371 people in Whitefield, down slightly from 391 in 2010.

In the 2000 census, Whitefield's 231 residents lived in just 99 households.

Whitefield is Haskell County's fourth most populous community, in a county whose seat is Stigler.