Finley, OK

Finley is an unincorporated community and Census designated place in Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, 10 miles northeast of Antlers. The 2020 census counted 38 residents. A United States Post Office was established at Finley, Indian Territory on April 30, 1903, and was named for Sidney W. Finley, local merchant and first postmaster. A newcomer can read Finley through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Finley comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. Finley was originally called Cedar Church, then Old Cedar Church, the name of a longstanding Choctaw Indian Methodist congregation established there during Indian Territory days. Finley hosts cemetery clean-up days.