River Bottom, OK

River Bottom is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Muskogee County, Oklahoma, United States. The 2020 census counted 248 residents. River Bottom is in eastern Muskogee County, bordered to the west by the Arkansas River and to the east by the community of Sand Hill. River Bottom is 10 miles southeast of Muskogee, the county seat, but 23 miles by road. The short version is that River Bottom carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on River Bottom: its past remains attached to the places people use now.