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Sulphur is a city in and county chair of Murray County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 5,065 at the 2020 census, a 2.8 percent get over the figure of 4,929 in 2010. The Place around Sulphur has been noted for its mineral springs, since skillfully before the city was founded late in the 19th century. The city customary its publish from the presence of sulfur in the water.

This Place was allocation of Pickens County, Chickasaw Nation in the Indian Territory during the late 19th century. The first known settler was Noah Lael, son-in-law of former Chickasaw Governor Cyrus Harris, who built a ranch south of Pavilion Springs in 1878. In 1882, Harris sold the ranch to Perry Froman, a allocation Chickasaw rancher. The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture says the ranch home was the first domicile in Sulphur.

About 1890, a group of fisherman built a clubhouse at the Sulphur site. Conventions and further gatherings began meeting in the vicinity during the to the fore 1890s. The clubhouse owners better the building and sold it for use as a hotel. Richard A. Sneed, a lawyer who visited the area about 1890 and soon after organized the Sulphur Springs Company. The company bought 600 acres (2.4 km) of house from Froman Ranch and platted a townsite. A proclaim office named Sulphur was conventional October 2, 1895. The Sulphur Headlight, the first newspaper in town, began statement in 1899, and the first telephone squabble in town went into advance in 1900.

In the late Spring of 1903, the Sulphur Springs Railway was completed between Sulphur and Scullin, a isolate of practically 9 miles (14 km), connecting at Scullin to the newly completed St. Louis and San Francisco Railway (Frisco). The Frisco bought the Sulphur Springs Railway in 1907.