Cottonwood is an unincorporated community in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, United States.

[2] It is located four miles south of Muldrow,[3] near the Oklahoma-Arkansas border.

[4] A post office operated in Cottonwood from March 3, 1882 to June 15, 1909.

[3] The area that became Coal County, including Sequoyah, became part of Cherokee Nation in 1829.

[4] Between the Civil War and Oklahoma Statehood in 1907, Cottonwood was populated primarily by white intruders who had illegally entered Cherokee Nation.