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Red Fork is a community in Southwest Tulsa. It was founded in 1883 as a railhead on the Arkansas River . [ 1 ] It is famous for being the location of the first oil well in Tulsa County , the Sue A. Bland #1.
Interstate 244 (I-244), also known as the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Expressway (in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.) since 1984, the Crosstown Expressway, and the Red Fork Expressway, is a 15.8-mile-long (25.4 km) east–west Interstate Highway bypass route of I-44 around Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The Red River is a major river in the Southern United States. [3] It was named for its reddish water color from passing through red-bed country in its watershed. [4] It also is known as the Red River of the South to distinguish it from the Red River of the North, which flows between Minnesota and North Dakota into the Canadian province of Manitoba.
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The old Chisholm Trail crossed the river at Red Fork Station near present-day Dover, Oklahoma. In the 1890s the Creek Nation Cave along the Cimarron River near Ingalls in the Oklahoma Territory, was a hideout for the Doolin gang , which included the teenage bandits Cattle Annie and Little Britches .
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Lookout Mountain is located in West Tulsa, Oklahoma. Although named Lookout Mountain, the "mountain" is actually a large hill. The east end of the hill overlooks the BNSF trainyard. KTUL, a local television station is on Lookout Mountain. To the north of Lookout Mountain are several industrial businesses, including the trash-to-energy plant.
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