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The Wichita Falls–Lawton and Paris–Hugo areas are often included in Texoma or Texomaland due to their proximity to the Red River and the Texas/Oklahoma border. Texoma mainly comprises the area and cities surrounding Lake Texoma , which includes eight counties.
Private schools in the Southwestern Oklahoma include Western Oklahoma Christian School in Clinton and Corn Bible Academy in Corn. Cameron University is the largest four-year, public university in Southwestern Oklahoma. [13] The university has an average fall enrollment of 6,000 students with 70 endowed faculty positions. [14]
Texhoma is a divided city with the Texas–Oklahoma state border separating the town from Texhoma, Texas. The name of the town is a portmanteau of Tex as and Okla homa . [ 4 ] Founded around the Rock Island Railroad laying tracks through the area, much of the town's local economy is from ranching and livestock.
State welcome sign on the New Mexico border of the panhandle. The panhandle, 166 miles (267 km) long and 34 miles (55 km) wide, is bordered by Kansas and Colorado at 37°N on the north, New Mexico at 103°W on the west, Texas at 36.5°N on the south, and the remainder of Oklahoma at 100°W on the east.
The Compromise of 1850 removed territory north of this line from Texas, and set the border between the Texas Panhandle and the New Mexico Territory at the 103rd meridian west. The eastern border at the 100th meridian west was inherited from the Adams–Onís Treaty of 1819, which defined the border between the United States and New Spain.
In Oklahoma, US-287 remains within Cimarron County, located at the end of the Panhandle. After crossing the state line north of Kerrick, Texas, the highway intersects State Highway 171 (SH-171) at its southern terminus. US-287 continues northwest, crossing the Beaver River, toward Boise City.
Oklahoma (/ ˌ oʊ k l ə ˈ h oʊ m ə / ⓘ OHK-lə-HOH-mə; [7] Choctaw: Oklahumma, pronounced) [8] is a landlocked state in the South Central region of the United States. [9] It borders Texas to the south and west, Kansas to the north, Missouri to the northeast, Arkansas to the east, New Mexico to the west, and Colorado to the northwest.
US 69 / US 75 at the Texas state line: US 70 in Durant US 69 in Atoka US 270 in Calvin I-40 / US 62 US 266 in Henryetta US 62 in Okmulgee I-44 in Tulsa US 64 in Tulsa US 412 in Tulsa US 60 in Bartlesville: North end: US-75 at the Kansas state line: Location; Country: United States: State: Oklahoma: Counties