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Porum is a town in Muskogee County, Oklahoma, United States. It was named for John Porum Davis, a rancher, Civil War veteran, and Cherokee Nation councilman from the Canadian District in Indian Territory. The community was first known as Porum Gap, which united with another village named Starvilla in 1905.
This is a list of rivers in the state of Oklahoma, listed by drainage basin, alphabetically, and by size. In mean flow of water per second, the Arkansas is Oklahoma's largest river, followed by the Red River and the Neosho River .
The North Canadian River is a river, 440 miles (710 km) long, [4] in Oklahoma in the United States. It is a tributary of the Canadian River , draining an area of 17,955 square miles (46,500 km 2 ) [ 5 ] in a watershed that includes parts of northeastern New Mexico and the Texas Panhandle .
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In 1824, the U.S. Army established Fort Gibson on the Grand River to dampen the conflict. The town of Fort Gibson that grew up just outside the fort claims to be the oldest town in Oklahoma. [3] At the start of the U. S. Civil War, Confederate troops of the Cherokee and Creek Home Guards built Fort Davis, across the Arkansas River from Fort Gibson.
Here's how to tell if Oklahoma rivers, lakes are safe to swim. Gannett. Claire Thornton and Alexia Aston, The Oklahoman. July 19, 2024 at 6:53 AM.
The Muskogee Southern Railroad, starting in 1902, built south from Muskogee in the 1902-1903 timeframe through the towns of Warner and Porum to a point on the Canadian River. [1] There, construction stopped due to lack of funding for a bridge. [2] A map shows this distance as about 37 miles. [3]
Salt Fork Arkansas River; Salt Fork Red River; Sans Bois Creek; Seneca Creek (New Mexico/Oklahoma) Skeleton Creek (Oklahoma) South Carrizo Creek; Spavinaw Creek; Spring Creek (Beaver River Tributary) Spring Creek (Neosho River Tributary) Spring River (Missouri) Sugar Creek (Caddo County, Oklahoma) Sweetwater Creek (Gray County, Texas)