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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Oklahoma
- County
- Bryan
- Mayor
- Martin Tucker ( R )
- Vice mayor
- Mike Simulescu
- City manager
- Tim Rundell
- Total
- 27.83 sq mi (72.08 km )
- Land
- 27.76 sq mi (71.89 km )
- Water
- 0.069 sq mi (0.18 km )
- Elevation
- 669 ft (204 m)
- Density
- 669.7/sq mi (258.56/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( CST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 ( CDT )
- Zip codes
- 74701-74702
- Fips code
- 40-22050
- Website
- www .durant .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Durant
- Population
- 18589
- Area
- 69.336677
- Elevation
- 194
- Official website
- www.durant.org
- Image
- Durant Oklahoma Aerial (50996156576).jpg
- Households
- 6941
- Dialing code
- 580
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- Commons category
- Durant, Oklahoma
- postal code
- 74702
- inception
- 1872-00-00
- P8168
- Olli
- water as percent of area
- 0.2369
- per capita income
- 24098
- P12749
- Alexander Girardi
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Durant (/duːrænt/) is a city in and the county seat of Bryan County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 18,589 in the 2020 census. It is the home of the headquarters of the Choctaw Nation, and is the largest settlement on the reservation, ranking ahead of McAlester and Poteau. Durant is the principal city of the Durant Micropolitan Statistical Area, which had a population of 46,067 in 2020. Durant is also part of the Dallas–Fort Worth Combined Statistical Area, anchoring the northern edge.
The city was founded by Dixon Durant, a Choctaw who lived in the area, after the MK&T railroad came through the Indian Territory in the early 1870s. It became the county seat of Bryan County in 1907 after Oklahoma statehood.