Hugo, Oklahoma
| Hugo, Oklahoma | |
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Broadway Street in Hugo
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| Nickname(s): Circus City, USA | |
 Location of Hugo, Oklahoma |
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| Coordinates: 34°0′34″N 95°30′53″W / 34.00944°N 95.51472°WCoordinates: 34°0′34″N 95°30′53″W / 34.00944°N 95.51472°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Oklahoma |
| County | Choctaw |
| Area | |
| • Total | 6.42 sq mi (16.64 km2) |
| • Land | 6.40 sq mi (16.58 km2) |
| • Water | 0.02 sq mi (0.06 km2) |
| Elevation | 545 ft (166 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 5,310 |
| • Density | 830/sq mi (320.3/km2) |
| Time zone | Central (CST) (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| ZIP code | 74743 |
| Area code(s) | 580 |
| FIPS code | 40-36300 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1094002 |
| Website | www |
Hugo is a city and county seat of Choctaw County, Oklahoma, United States. It is located in southeastern Oklahoma about 9 miles (14 km) north of the Texas state line. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 5,310.
The city was founded in 1901 and named for the French novelist Victor Hugo. The city serves as winter quarters for some circus performers. It is adjacent to one of the oldest schools west of the Mississippi: Goodland Academy, begun in 1848.
The town is located in a cultural area of the state known as Little Dixie, as it was settled by Native American tribes, African Americans and European Americans from the southeastern United States. It is near the tourist area of Kiamichi Country.
This was part of the Indian Territory to which the United States government relocated Native American tribes from east of the Mississippi River in the 1830s under its Indian Removal policy. Among the nations relocated here were the Choctaw, for whom the county is named. They were one of what were called the "Five Civilized Tribes" of the southeastern United States, as they had adopted numerous elements of European-American culture. When they relocated, they brought with them the numerous African-American slaves whom they held. As the Choctaw allied with the Confederate South during the American Civil War, the United States government insisted on a new peace treaty with them after its end. A condition was the Choctaws' emancipation of their slaves and granting to the freedmen of rights of full citizenship in the Choctaw nation, as the US was granting citizenship to former slaves of the South.
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