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The James Jordan Buck is the 2nd highest scoring typical white-tailed deer ever harvested by a hunter in the United States (only behind the Huff buck) and the third-highest scoring in the world. James (Jim) Jordan was a 22-year-old hunter from Burnett County, Wisconsin when he shot the record buck on November 20, 1914.
Hominy (Osage: 𐒹𐓘́͘𐓨𐓘͘𐓵𐓣͘, romanized: Hą́mąðį – night-walker [4]) is a city in Osage County, Oklahoma, United States. [a] The population was 3,565 at the 2010 census, a 38 percent increase over the figure of 2,584 recorded in 2000.
LeFlore County is a county along the eastern border of the U.S state of Oklahoma.As of the 2020 census, the population was 48,129. [1] Its county seat is Poteau. [2] The county is part of the Fort Smith metropolitan area and the name honors a Choctaw family named LeFlore. [3]
Nowata (Lenape: Nuwatu, Nuwi ta [4]) is a city and county seat of Nowata County, Oklahoma, United States. [5] The population was 3,731 at the United States Census, 2010, a 6.0 percent decline from the figure of 3,971 recorded in 2000. [6] The area where it was established was then part of the Cherokee Nation in Indian Territory.
Antlers is a city in and the county seat of Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, United States. [4] The population was 2,221 as of the 2020 United States census. [5] The town was named for a kind of tree that becomes festooned with antlers shed by deer, and is taken as a sign of the location of a spring frequented by deer.
In that same year, a Baptist church was organized, the first Protestant church in what would become Oklahoma Territory. [6] In 1888, Navajoe School opened. [7] [8] Soon, more than 200 families had settled in and around Navajoe. The town became a trade center for the area's settlers, cowhands and Indians.
Authorities said more than 36 tons of the illegally grown crop were captured last week in Wagoner and Lincoln counties, one of the biggest seizures in state history.
Oklahoma experienced its largest tornado outbreak on record, with 70 confirmed. The most notable of these was the F5 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado which devastated Oklahoma City and suburban communities. The tornado killed 36 people and injured 583 others; losses amounted to $1 billion, making it the first billion-dollar tornado in history.