Calhoun, Oklahoma

[4] The town is just northwest of Cavanal Hill, which makes the eccentric boast of being the “world’s highest hill.”[3][5] For a while a coal mining boomtown, Calhoun later waned along with the industry.

[6][7] Transportation between the two points was improved in the 1900-1901 timeframe when the Choctaw Coal & Mining Company incorporated its own railway, the Poteau Valley Railroad (“PVR”), on October 19, 1900,[8] which built a 6.6 mile line from a connection with the KCS at Shady Point directly to the mines at Sutter.

[11] The town had three substantial mercantile firms, a cotton gin, a grist mill, a Baptist church, and a public school.

[7] Calhoun had eleven various retail stores, with the largest mercantile in town owned by mining company Central Coal & Lumber.

[6][8] By the time of the Thirty-sixth annual report of the Department of Mines and Minerals in 1943, no production at all was shown from Calhoun in Le Flore County.