Macomb, OK

Macomb is a town in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, United States. The 2020 census counted 22 residents. The present town of Macomb began as a community named Burnett on the land allotment owned by on State Highway 59B when the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Burnett, entrepreneurs from Burnett, moved to the current site. A post office, originally designated as McComb, opened at the new site on May 29, 1903. A newcomer can read Macomb through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Macomb comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. Macomb is 10 miles southwest of Tecumseh on State Highway 59B.