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Lake Texoma is situated on the border between Oklahoma and Texas in the Oklahoma counties of Bryan, Marshall, Johnston, and Love, and the Texas counties of Grayson and Cooke. [6] It has a surface area of 89,000 acres (360 km 2 ), a conservation water volume of 2,525,568 acre⋅ft (3.115242 km 3 ), and a flood-control volume of 5,194,163 acre⋅ ...
SH-91 begins at Denison Dam at Lake Texoma, connecting to Texas State Highway 91 and heading north. Shortly after reaching the shore it turns east to run through Cartwright. It then has an interchange with US-69 / US-75 near Colbert. SH-91 then ends at SH-78 in Achille.
The following is a list of lakes in Oklahoma located entirely (or partially, as in the case of Lake Texoma) in the state. Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all. Oklahoma has more than 200 lakes created by dams. All lakes listed are man-made. Oklahoma's only natural lakes are oxbow and playa lakes ...
Colbert is a town in Bryan County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 1,140 at the 2010 census, a 7 percent increase over the figure of 1,065 recorded in 2000. [ 4 ] It was incorporated in 1939.
Colbert's Ferry was an important Red River crossing between Texas and Indian Territory from about 1853 to 1899. Both the Texas Road and the Butterfield Overland Mail route crossed here. It was located on the Texas Road about 3 miles (4.8 km) southeast of present–day Colbert , Bryan County, Oklahoma . [ 3 ]
Texoma is an interstate region in the United States, split between Oklahoma and Texas. The name is a portmanteau of Texas and Oklahoma. Businesses use the term in their names to describe their intended service area.
The United States Army Corps of Engineers bought all the land in the area in the late 1930s for Lake Texoma. [13] After the filling of Lake Texoma, only the cemetery was left from Preston; which was on high ground overlooking the town. [13] The cemetery was expanded with a new section when Lake Texoma was created. Some of the existing graves ...
Bryan County is in southeastern Oklahoma, in a 10-county area designated as Choctaw Country for tourism purposes by the Oklahoma Department of Tourism and Recreation. [6] According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the county has a total area of 944 square miles (2,440 km 2 ), of which 904 square miles (2,340 km 2 ) is land and 39 square miles (100 ...