Calvin, OK

Calvin is a town in Hughes County, Oklahoma, United States. The 2020 census counted 309 residents. The present community of Calvin was established in 1895, when the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad laid a line through the Choctaw Nation between McAlester and Oklahoma City. The community was initially called "Riverview", for its location on the south bank of the Canadian River. The short version is that Calvin carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Calvin: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Calvin is located in south-central Hughes County on the south side of the Canadian River. U.S. Route 75 passes just east of the town limits, leading north 19 miles to Wetumka and south 32 miles to Coalgate. Calvin includes a ferry operating across the Canadian River.