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Tonkawa Tribal Housing is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kay County, Oklahoma, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census [2] and is inhabited by members of the Tonkawa Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma. The CDP is in southern Kay County, 3 miles (5 km) east of the city of Tonkawa. In addition to residences, the CDP is ...
The Tonkawa Tribe now has 950 citizens, most of whom live in Oklahoma and half of whom are younger than 18. It is headquartered in a town named after the tribe near Interstate 35.
Three Sands was an oil and gas boomtown which sprang into existence about November 1922 and ceased to exist in 1957. It was located along the Tonkawa-Perry road, now US Route 77, in the area of the Kay County and Noble County border, in the State of Oklahoma.
During World War II, Tonkawa was home to Camp Tonkawa, a prisoner-of-war camp.Camp Tonkawa remained in operation from August 30, 1943, to September 1, 1945. [6] Built between October and December 1942, the 160-acre (0.65 km 2) site contained more than 180 wooden structures for 3,000 German POWs as well as 500 U.S. Army guard troops, service personnel and civilian employees. [7]
The Tonkawa shared Central Texas with others. Before the 1880s, the Indigenous presence in this area had endured for millennia. Recent artifacts unearthed at the Gault Site, on the border of ...
The Tonkawa are a Native American tribe from Oklahoma and Texas. [2] Their Tonkawa language, now extinct, [4] is a linguistic isolate. [5] Today, Tonkawa people are enrolled in the federally recognized Tonkawa Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, headquartered in Tonkawa, Oklahoma. [6] They have more than 700 tribal citizens. [1]
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Tonkawa Lodge No. 157 A.F. & A.M., at 112 N. 7th St. in Tonkawa, Oklahoma, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. [1] It is a two-story red brick building, built in 1924 to 1925 and is Classical Revival in style. It was designed by Oklahoma City architects Hawk & Parr. [2]