Kemp is a town in Bryan County, Oklahoma, United States.

[4] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.2 square miles (0.52 km2), all land.

The town is also in the southeast corner of Panola County of the Chickasaw Nation.

Board sidewalks lined Main Street of Kemp in the early years.

However, when the Missouri, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad (later the Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf) located three miles west of the town in 1912, many of the businesses including the bank located there in Kemp City, later renamed Hendrix, and the town of Kemp began its decline.

Many girls of Chickasaw Indian descent from the area attended Bloomfield Academy, an Indian girls’ school located three miles northwest of Kemp operated by the Chickasaw Nation from 1852 until 1911.

The rock school building is owned by the town and serves the area as the Kemp Community Center.

Most adults seeking higher education attend Southeastern Oklahoma State University in Durant, or Grayson County College, in Denison, Texas.