Wakita is a town in Grant County, Oklahoma, United States, approximately 8 miles (13 km) south of the Kansas border.

[5] Green and other local settlers wanted to name the town in the chief's honor because of a protective spell cast by the chief's tribe to protect the area around the town, between Crooked Creek and Pond Creek, from tornadoes for 100 years.

Citing historian George Shirk, the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture states that Wakita is a Cherokee word for water collected in a small depression, such as a buffalo wallow.

The same source states that Charles N. Gould claimed it was probably a Creek word meaning "to cry" or "to lament".

The population grew when the Hutchison and Southern Railroad (later the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway) built a line through the area in 1897.

On May 10, 2010, numerous tornadoes touched down in Grant County, causing significant damage near the Wakita area.

[6] Wakita is 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Medford, the county seat, on State Highway 11A.

[5] According to the United States Census Bureau, it has a total area of 0.3 square miles (0.78 km2), all land.

[citation needed] Wakita was the setting of a 1984 television commercial about DuPont's subsidiary Conoco using seismograph technology to search for oil.