Big Cabin, OK

Big Cabin is a town in Craig County, Oklahoma, United States. The 2020 census counted 174 residents. The town was named for a local landmark, a plank cabin, that existed near the place where the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway built a switch in 1871–2. The first post office in this part of Indian Territory opened in 1872. A newcomer can read Big Cabin through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Big Cabin comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. Big Cabin is located near the southern border of Craig County. U.S. Route 69 passes through the town, leading north 10 miles to Vinita, the county seat, and south 8 miles to Adair, 60 miles to Muskogee, 120 miles to McAlester, or 290 miles to Dallas, Texas, via US 75.