Oologah (/uːləɡɑː/ OOH-lə-GAH) is a town in Rogers County, Oklahoma, United States.

Renowned humorist Will Rogers was born on a ranch two miles east of Oologah, although he usually claimed Claremore as his birthplace "because nobody but an Indian can pronounce 'Oologah.

[5] In 1889, the Kansas and Arkansas Valley Railway (later, the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway, subsequently a part of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, and currently, the Union Pacific Railroad) laid tracks through the area and established a townsite named Oologah, Indian Territory.

[6] The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture says that the Oklahoma Federal Writers' Project claimed the name translates from the Cherokee language as "red horse fish", while some other sources say that the name means "cloudy weather" or just "clouds."

Early in the 20th century, the town flourished because of agriculture, coal mining, and oil and gas production.

[7] In 1963, the Army Corps of Engineers completed the first phase of Oologah Lake.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.25 square miles (3.2 km2), all land.

In March 2010, an outbreak of bacterial meningitis killed two students at Oologah-Talala Lower Elementary School.