I know NOTHING specifically of the Coweta / Keota confusion, but thought it might relate to the process of naming Post Offices. Early day communities were typically named without thought to whether there was another of the same name in the territory. If you consider the isolation and lack of communication compared to what we have today, this is easy to understand. So in case of duplicates, the FIRST community to apply for a Post Office got the name. Where I now live in southern New Mexico, there's a nearby village named Picacho, at the foot of Picacho Peak. Residents, however, get their mail from Fairacres -- because the name Picacho had already been approved for a stop in the eastern part of the state when they applied for a Post Office. So if someone is looking for family in Picacho, NM, they must know whether the village or the Post Office is "their" Picacho. The difference is "just" a couple of hundred miles..... I also know of duplicates in Oklahoma. Ghost Towns of Oklahoma has a blurb about Pleasant Valley, which was located in northeastern Logan Co. -- but there was also a Pleasant Valley in northeastern Oklahoma County. And I've wondered how many other early-day territorial communities were called "Pleasant Valley"..... Sharon McAllister 73372.1745@compuserve.com