Blue, Oklahoma

{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Oklahoma, US}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}}

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Blue is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Bryan County, Oklahoma, United States.http://www.odl.state.ok.us/almanac/2005/12-muni.pdf Oklahoma Municipal Government, from the Oklahoma Almanac It is located {{convert|9|mi|0}} east of Durant, the county seat. It is named after the nearby Blue River. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 195.{{cite web| url=http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/1600000US4006900| archive-url=https://archive.today/20200212185147/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/1600000US4006900| url-status=dead| archive-date=February 12, 2020| title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Blue CDP, Oklahoma| publisher=U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder| accessdate=February 24, 2014}} Its post office was established on July 1, 1874.Shirk, George H. Oklahoma Place Names. University of Oklahoma Press, 1987. {{ISBN|978-0-8061-2028-7}}

At the time of its founding, Blue was located in Blue County, Choctaw Nation. In 1886 that portion of Blue County was joined by portions of Atoka County and Kiamitia County to form Jackson County. Jackson County's western border was the Blue River, just west of the village of Blue.