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Atoka Community Building: September 8, 1988 (#88001373) December 29, 2005: First and Delaware Streets: Atoka: 2: Old Atoka County Courthouse: Old Atoka County Courthouse: December 6, 1979 (#79001985) December 29, 2005: Pennsylvania and Court Streets: Atoka: 3: Captain James S. Standley House: December 11, 1979 (#79001986) December 29, 2005
Boggy Depot is a ghost town and Oklahoma State Park that was formerly a significant city in the Indian Territory.It grew as a vibrant and thriving town in present-day Atoka County, Oklahoma, United States, and became a major trading center on the Texas Road and the Butterfield Overland Mail route between Missouri and San Francisco.
Atoka County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.As of the 2020 census, the population was 14,143. [1] Its county seat is Atoka. [2] The county was formed before statehood from Choctaw Lands, and its name honors a Choctaw Chief named Atoka.
Atoka is a city in and the county seat of Atoka County, Oklahoma, United States. [4] The population was 3,195 as of the 2020 Census, [5] a 2.4% increase over the 3,107 reported at the 2010 census, [6] which was itself an increase of 4.0 percent from the figure of 2,988 in 2000.
Roughly along Broadway Ave., from NW. 4th St. to W. Park Place, and roughly along NW. 10th St.; also north side of 000 Block of NW 6th St. 35°28′33″N 97°30′53″W / 35.4758°N 97.5147°W / 35.4758; -97.5147 ( Automobile Alley Historic
Edmond also agreed to spend $500,000 to improve drainage on nearby land, plus pay to build site fencing that will be needed around a pump station supporting the new park. Edmond also agreed to ...
The state of Oklahoma historically had civil townships.On August 5, 1913, voters passed the Oklahoma Township Amendment, also known as State Question 58. [1] This allowed the creation or abolishment of townships on a county by county basis; by the mid-1930s, all Oklahoma counties had voted to abolish them. [2]
The presence of oil in Indian Territory had been observed for many years, usually as natural seepage from the ground. Oklahoma Historian Muriel H. Wright described an incident in 1859, in which Lewis Ross, the brother of Cherokee Chief John Ross, attempted to drill a deep water well for the salt works he owned in the Cherokee Nation.