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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⋅ ...
Flag of Oklahoma. The history of Oklahoma refers to the history of the state of Oklahoma and the land that the state now occupies. Areas of Oklahoma east of its panhandle were acquired in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, while the Panhandle was not acquired until the U.S. land acquisitions following the Mexican–American War (1846–1848).
The Muscogee Nation, or Muscogee (Creek) Nation, [3] is a federally recognized Native American tribe based in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The nation descends from the historic Muscogee Confederacy , a large group of indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands .
Many large Oklahoma lakes have state parks and lodges. Shorelines of most lakes are publicly owned and accessible to everyone. Ranked by surface acres, Lake Eufaula is the 34th largest lake in the United States and Lake Texoma is the 38th largest.
In 1898, the St. Louis and Oklahoma City Railway Company (later the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway), [4] connected Sapulpa and Oklahoma City. [3] The present Creek County was established at the time of statehood, with a population of 18,365. The town of Sapulpa was initially designated as the county seat.
Creek National Capitol, also known as Creek Council House, is a building in downtown Okmulgee, Oklahoma, United States. It was the capitol of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation from 1878 until 1907. They had established their capital at Okmulgee in 1867, after the American Civil War.
Map of the Indian Territory showing Buck Creek, c. 1898. It was considered a prominent stream. Buck Creek (Choctaw: Lapitta Bok) is a 38.9-mile-long (62.6 km) [1] [failed verification] stream in Pushmataha County, Oklahoma. It flows generally southward from its headwaters in the western Kiamichi Mountains to its confluence with the Kiamichi River.
Okmulgee County is a county in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census, the population was 36,706. [1] The county seat is Okmulgee. [2] Located within the Muscogee Nation Reservation, the county was created at statehood in 1907. The name Okmulgee is derived from the Hitchita (Lower Creek) word okimulgi, meaning "boiling waters". [3]