A Choate yard and a Choate well, just north of Clinton

Custer County and the counties around it produce from the deeper Anadarko Basin, from the Cana-Woodford to the Granite Wash, and those wells produce water long after they are completed. Having the yard and the well on the same site keeps the haul short and the trucks close to the leases that need them.

I-40 runs east and west through Clinton, and US-183 runs north and south, so Custer, Washita and Dewey County leases are within reach of the Clinton Yard. Fay SWD #1-31, at the western edge of Blaine County 35 road miles to the northeast, is the next Choate well when a job calls for it.

Call Choate dispatch at 405-463-9527 any hour; the Clinton Yard's trucks are dispatched from the same desk as the rest of the fleet. The office is at 580-402-0272.

Clinton began in 1903 as Washita Junction, a railroad crossing four miles south of Arapaho. When Arapaho's residents sued to stop the new town, territorial judge Clinton F. Irwin ruled for the townsite company, and the town took his name. Two railroads made it a trade center, Route 66 later made it one of the biggest stops between Oklahoma City and Amarillo, and it still calls itself the Hub City of Western Oklahoma.

Clinton High School's Red Tornadoes are one of the great football programs in the state, with 17 state championships between 1965 and 2021. The most recent came in the 2021 Class 4A final, a 35–0 win over Tuttle that finished a 13–1 season.

The Oklahoma Route 66 Museum on Gary Boulevard, opened in 1995, was the first state-run Route 66 museum in the country. The Cheyenne Cultural Center sits on Route 66 north of town, McLain Rogers Park and the Clinton Armory are on the National Register of Historic Places, and Foss Lake, about 15 miles west, supplies the city's water and its weekend fishing. Toby Keith was born in Clinton in 1961.