[5] Starting as a Frisco railroad stop in 1899, Beggs officially became a town on September 15, 1900, when its post office opened.

[6] After that, corn, cotton, pecans, and stock raising became important local industries, but Beggs went into a gradual decline, going from an official population of 2,327 in 1920 to 1,531 in 1930 and 1,107 in 1970.

[7] Isparhecher House and Grave is among the National Register of Historic Places listings in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, and is located approximately four miles west of town off State Highway 16 on private land.

The former alignment running directly south from Beggs to Okmulgee is known as Old Highway 75.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.3 square miles (11 km2), all land.

[15][16] In the 21st century, pay phones of any cost began to be phased out across the country by AT&T in 2007 and Verizon in 2011.

[18][19] Beggs features prominently in The Great War: American Front, the second volume of the Southern Victory alternate history novels by author Harry Turtledove.

Beggs was one of the filming sites for principal photography on Season One of the FX comedy series Reservation Dogs from filmmaker Sterlin Harjo, which concerns four Native American teens in rural Oklahoma.