Coalton is a populated place in
Okmulgee County,
Oklahoma.[1][2] It is less than 11 miles south of the
City of Okmulgee, and just east of
US Route 62/
US Route 75.[3] In the
Henryetta Coal Formation coal-mining region[4] and an oil-producing area,[5] the town in its heyday had its own newspaper, The Coalton Enterprise,[6] and was along the route of the
shortline Coalton Railway, later called the
Okmulgee Northern Railway, which operated from Okmulgee south along the
Deep Fork River carrying the coal out of the Coalton,
Schulter and
Dewar producing areas from 1916 to 1964.[7] The Thirty-sixth annual report of the Department of Mines and Minerals from 1943 shows production by two coal companies in Coalton—Coalton Coal Company and Davis Coal Company—of almost 17,000 tons annually.[4]