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  2. Great Salt Plains State Park - Wikipedia

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    The Great Salt Plains Lake is located at the park and covers 9,300 acres (38 km 2) with 41 miles (66 km) of shoreline and is a shallow, salty lake with fishing opportunities for catfish, saugeye, sandbass and hybrid striper. The average depth is reportedly 4 feet (1.2 m) and the impoundment capacity is 31,420 acre-feet.

  3. Great Salt Plains Lake - Wikipedia

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    Great Salt Plains Lake is a reservoir located within the Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma in the United States named because of the salt flats in the area and for the Salt Fork Arkansas River, which is dammed to form the lake.

  4. Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge - Wikipedia

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    The Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge is part of the United States system of national wildlife refuges.It is located in Alfalfa County in northern Oklahoma, north of Jet (pop. 230), along Great Salt Plains Lake, which is formed by a dam on the Salt Fork of the Arkansas River.

  5. List of lakes of Oklahoma - Wikipedia

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    Broken Bow is one of Oklahoma's deepest and most scenic lakes. Great Salt Plains Lake is the centerpiece of a wildlife refuge that is a critical way-station for migratory birds. Aerial view of Fort Gibson Lake and Sequoyah State Park. Many large Oklahoma lakes have state parks and lodges.

  6. Alfalfa County, Oklahoma - Wikipedia

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    The Great Salt Plains Lake, as well as the associated Great Salt Plains State Park and Great Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge lie within the county, approximately 12 miles east of Cherokee. [17] The major waterways in the county are the Salt Fork of the Arkansas River and the Medicine Lodge River. [18]

  7. Black Dog (Osage chief) - Wikipedia

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    It started from their winter territory east of Baxter Springs in Kansas and extended southwest to their summer hunting grounds at the Great Salt Plains in present-day Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. [5] [6] [7] The Osage regularly stopped at the springs for healing on their way to summer hunting grounds. They made the trail by clearing it of brush ...

  8. List of Oklahoma state parks - Wikipedia

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    Great Plains State Park: Kiowa: 187 76: 1977: Tom Steed Reservoir: Great Salt Plains State Park: Alfalfa: 840 340: 1952: Great Salt Plains Lake: Greenleaf State Park: Muskogee: 565 229: 1954: Greenleaf Lake: Honey Creek State Park: Delaware: 30 12: 1954: Grand Lake: Now known as the Honey Creek Area at Grand Lake State Park. [2] Keystone State ...

  9. Cherokee, Oklahoma - Wikipedia

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    The Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge is located a few miles southeast of Cherokee. [12] The salt plains are known for their unique hour-glass selenite crystals. [14] On 11 July 1909, at 3:00 in the morning, a heat burst south of Cherokee reportedly caused the temperature to rise briefly to 136 °F (57.8 °C), desiccating crops in the area. [15]