[4] Home to Bacone College, it lies approximately 48 miles (77 km) southeast of Tulsa.

[5] French fur traders were believed to have established a temporary village near the future Muskogee in 1806, but the first permanent European-American settlement was established in 1817 on the south bank of the Verdigris River, north of present-day Muskogee.

At the top of what is known as Agency Hill, it is within Honor Heights Park on the west side of Muskogee.

A federal court was established in Muskogee in 1889, around the same time that Congress opened portions of Indian Territory to non-Native settlers via land rushes.

[7] He was instrumental in building on the land rush; he stimulated expansion of the city of more than 4,000 people to a center of business and industry by 1910, with a population of more than 25,000 inhabitants.

Most importantly, he organized and built most of the railroads running into the city, which connected it to other markets and centers of population, stimulating its business and retail, and attracting new residents.

In the years before the territory was admitted as a state, the Five Civilized Tribes continued to work on alternatives to keep some independence from European Americans.

[11] Muskogee attracted national and international attention when, in May 2008, voters elected John Tyler Hammons as mayor.

Nineteen years old at the time of his election, Hammons is among the youngest mayors in American history.

Muskogee lies in the Arkansas River Valley and has a low, sea-level elevation compared to much of the rest of the state.

[17] Two barges filled with tons of phosphate broke loose and threatened to break the dam they were heading towards.

[30] The initial production line will produce up to 25,000 metric tons of battery-grade lithium per year, with a projected second phase doubling that capacity.

The Thomas-Foreman Historic Home, aka the Grant Foreman House is an 1898 farm house preserved with the furnishings of the Indian Territory Judge John R. Thomas and his daughter and son-in-law Grant and Carolyn Foreman, Oklahoma historians and authors.

Two feature films were shot in Muskogee through a tax incentive program offered by the state: Salvation (2007) and Denizen (2010).

The Renaissance festival draws in tens of thousands each year, hosting jousts, dancing, vendors and other events.

[32] The local paper, the Muskogee Phoenix, was founded in February 1888 when Oklahoma was still a territory,[33] and continues to be published today.

The city's ceremonial head is the mayor, who is a voting, at-large member of the council with limited administrative power.

All elections are non-partisan; the mayor and the members of the city council receive no salary or compensation for their services.

According to records by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, in 2002, 2008 and 2009, no murders were committed for the entire year.

[36][37] On February 2, 2021, a mass murder occurred when a gunman opened fire at a home, killing six people, including five children, and one woman was seriously injured.

Hilldale Public Schools covers a small southern portion of the city limits and some parts of the County south of Muskogee.

Muskogee was an affiliate of the St. Louis Browns (1932, 1947–1949), Cincinnati Reds (1937–1939), Chicago Cubs (1941), Detroit Tigers (1946) and New York Giants (1936, 1951–1957).

In April 1923, Babe Ruth with the New York Yankees played an exhibition game at Owen Field against the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Later, Mickey Mantle played at Athletic Park in 1950 for the Joplin Miners in games against Muskogee.

[59] An accompanying sonic boom was heard by many witnesses in the Oklahoma cities of Bixby, Broken Arrow, Coweta, Wagoner and as far away as Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Local television station KJRH stated, "Multiple surveillance videos captured the meteor's sights and sounds early Friday morning."

The meteor survived to relatively low altitudes, breaking apart soon thereafter, raining down numerous meteorite fragments that ultimately reached the ground.

Meteorite enthusiasts from around the country quickly converged on the strewnfield, which was scientifically determined to be in an around the Muskogee area.

Reality television meteorite hunter Steve Arnold told reporter Jeanette Quezada of KJRH, "We're out here hunting…we're finding rocks.