Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Oklahoma
- County
- Muskogee
- Total
- 1.56 sq mi (4.03 km )
- Land
- 1.55 sq mi (4.02 km )
- Water
- 0.0039 sq mi (0.01 km )
- Elevation
- 591 ft (180 m)
- Density
- 112.2/sq mi (43.32/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 (CDT)
- Area codes
- 539/918
- Fips code
- 40-72050
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Encyclopedic overview
Taft City Hall in March of 2026 Gazebo in Taft with Taft Volunteer Fire Dept. in background, March 2026 Taft is a town in Muskogee County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 174 as of the 2020 Census, down from 250 in 2010. The locale began as an all-black town on land allotted to Creek Freedmen. It is named for President William Howard Taft.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Taft” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.