Arpelar, OK

Arpelar is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, United States. The 2020 census counted 291 residents. U.S. Route 270 and Oklahoma State Highway 1 pass through the community. Arpelar was named after Aaron Arpelar, a county judge of Tobucksy County in the Choctaw Nation. A newcomer can read Arpelar through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Arpelar comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. At the time of its founding, Arpelar was located in Tobucksy County.