Editing Achille, Oklahoma (section)

==History==
The area that would become Achille was originally part of the [[Chickasaw Nation]] in [[Indian Territory]]. The [[Bloomfield Academy (Oklahoma)|Bloomfield Academy]] for Chickasaw girls was located {{convert|3|miles|km}} southeast of present-day Achille from 1853 until 1914.<ref name="history" /> Cherokee refugees located to the area during the [[American Civil War]] and called it "{{lang|chr|atsila}}", meaning fire.<ref name ="history"/>

The [[Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway#Missouri, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway|Missouri, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway]] built a line that crossed the region in 1908 and a post office was established in the community in 1910.<ref name="history" /> The community grew from an estimated population of 50 to 500 in 1920.<ref name="history" /> The town's population declined to 294 in 1960 and reached a peak number of 506 in 2000.<ref name="history" />