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The Beaver River is an intermittent river, 280 miles (450 km) long, [3] in western Oklahoma and northern Texas in the United States. It is a tributary of the North Canadian River, draining an area of 11,690 square miles (30,300 km 2) [4] in a watershed that extends to northeastern New Mexico and includes most of the Oklahoma Panhandle.
Beaver is located by Beaver River, also known as North Canadian River, and began as the location of a fur-trading post in 1879. Its original name was Beaver City , [ 9 ] and was planned to be the capital of the short-lived Cimarron Territory .
The North Canadian River is formed by the confluence of the Beaver River and Wolf Creek, northeast of the town of Fort Supply in Woodward County, Oklahoma.It flows generally eastward and southeastward, through Woodward, Major, Dewey, Blaine, Canadian, Oklahoma, Lincoln, Pottawatomie, Seminole, Hughes, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, and McIntosh counties, through the cities and towns of Woodward, Oklahoma ...
Beaver River WMA [13] Beaver: 17,700 acres (7,200 ha) Southeast of Turpin in the western part of the county In the Oklahoma panhandle: Black Kettle WMA [14] Roger Mills: 30,710 acres (12,430 ha) Near Cheyenne: Connected with the Black Kettle National Grassland owned by the U.S. Forest Service [15] Blue River WMA [16] Johnston: 3,367 acres ...
The North Canadian River is named Beaver River or Beaver Creek on its course through the Panhandle. Its land area is 5,686 square miles (14,730 km 2) and comprises 8.28 percent of Oklahoma's land area. [3] The area includes Beaver Dunes Park with sand dunes along the Beaver River and Optima Lake, the home of the Optima National Wildlife Refuge.
Beaver County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.As of the 2020 census, the population was 5,049. [1] The county seat is Beaver. [2] The name was given because of the presence of many beaver dams on the Beaver River, which runs through the area. [3]
This is a list of rivers in the state of Oklahoma, listed by drainage basin, alphabetically, and by size. In mean flow of water per second, the Arkansas is Oklahoma's largest river, followed by the Red River and the Neosho River .
The Cooper Bison Kill Site is an archaeological site near Fort Supply in Harper County, Oklahoma, United States.Located along the Beaver River, it was explored in 1993 and 1994 and found to contain artifacts of the Folsom tradition, dated at c.10800 BCE to c. 10,200 BCE in calibrated radiocarbon years. [2]