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The Kiamichi Mountains (Choctaw: Nʋnih Chaha Kiamitia) are a mountain range in southeastern Oklahoma. A subrange within the larger Ouachita Mountains that extend from Oklahoma to western Arkansas , [ 1 ] the Kiamichi Mountains sit within Le Flore , Pushmataha and McCurtain counties near the towns of Poteau , Albion and Smithville .
The Great Smoky Mountains (Cherokee: ᎡᏆ ᏚᏧᏍᏚ ᏙᏓᎸ, Equa Dutsusdu Dodalv) are a mountain range rising along the Tennessee–North Carolina border in the southeastern United States. They are a subrange of the Appalachian Mountains and form part of the Blue Ridge Physiographic Province .
The Ozark and Ouachita (pronounced Oh-Wa-Sheet-ah) Mountains rise from west to east over the state's eastern third, gradually increasing in elevation in an eastward direction. [7] [9] Oklahoma had few natural lakes. Those that did exist were either oxbow or playa lakes. Oklahoma has sixty-two oxbow lakes above 10 acres (0.040 km 2) in size.
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park covers a total of 522,419 acres (816.280 sq mi; 211,415 ha; 2,114.15 km 2) The park is roughly evenly divided between Tennessee and North Carolina, and is located within portions of Blount, Sevier, and Cocke Counties in Tennessee, and Swain and Haywood Counties in North Carolina. [12]
The Boston Mountains of the Arkansas and Oklahoma Ozark Plateaus; the highest point is Wahzhazhe Summit (formerly known as Buffalo Lookout), at 2,561 feet (781 m), 3.4 miles (5.5 km) east of Pettigrew, Newton County, Arkansas. Wahzhazhe is the Osage people’s name for themselves in the Dhegiha Siouan language.
Tennessee is in the Southeastern United States.Most of the state is considered part of the Upland South, and the eastern third is part of Appalachia. [1] Tennessee covers roughly 42,143 square miles (109,150 km 2), of which 926 square miles (2,400 km 2), or 2.2%, is water.
Like most of the Smokies crest, Mount Collins is situated along the Tennessee-North Carolina border, with Sevier County to the north and Swain County to the south. The mountain rises approximately 4,000 feet (1,200 m) above its southeastern base near Bryson City [3] and just over 3,000 feet (910 m) above its northwestern base near Meigs Post Prong. [4]
Chilhowee Mountain is the name of two non-contiguous ridges in the U.S. state of Tennessee.The ridges run in a northeastern to southwestern direction. The northern section is at the outer edge of the Great Smoky Mountains, stretching from the Little Pigeon River watershed at the northeast to the Little Tennessee River and Chilhowee Dam to the southwest.