Savanna, OK

Savanna is a town in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, United States. The 2020 census counted 623 residents. Savanna is the hometown of former Harlem Globetrotter and 2014 NAIA Dunk Champion Tyler Inman. Begun as a rural settlement in Tobucksy County, Choctaw Nation during the 1860s, the community's economy was based on agriculture and cattle ranching. Savanna operates a fully equipped pre-K - 12 public school system, which had an enrollment of 513 in 2000. Savanna's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Oklahoma setting. The local scoop is how Savanna's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. Coal mining became the most important economic activity during the 1870s. Savanna is 9 miles south of McAlester on U.S. Highway 69.