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is a city in McIntosh County, Oklahoma, United States, named for the first elected Chief of the Creek Nation after the Civil War, Samuel Checote. The population was 3,481 at the 2000 census.
Checotah is home to a large number of antique malls, a Civil War battle site and a downtown historic district. Checotah claims to be Steerwrestling Capital of the World. It is the hometown of 2005
winner Carrie Underwood and country music singer Mel McDaniel as well as Paul H. Carr, the WWII naval hero, for whom the USS Carr (FFG-52) is named. The telephone area code is 918 and the postal ZIP code is 74426.
Checotah is located at (35.471998, -95.523770) at an elevation of , nestled among the intersection of I-40 and U.S. Route 69. Nearby is Eufaula Lake, which was once the largest man-made lake in the nation, with of shoreline.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 9.0 sq mi (23.3 km²). 8.9 sq mi (23.1 km²) of it is land and 0.1 sq mi (0.2 km²) of it (0.67%) is water.