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Porum is located approximately 30 miles (48 km) south of Muskogee, the county seat. [ 4 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 0.8 square miles (2.1 km 2 ), of which 0.8 square miles (2.1 km 2 ) is land and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km 2 ) (2.56%) is water.
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]
State Highway 2, abbreviated SH-2 or OK-2, is a designation for two distinct highways maintained by the U.S. state of Oklahoma.Though they were once connected, the middle section of highway was concurrent with three different U.S. highways, so the middle section was decommissioned for reasons of redundancy.
The Porum Range War was a range war that happened in the town of Porum in Muskogee County, Oklahoma between large ranch owner Judge Thomas Luther Hester and the Davis and Starr families. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The feud began due to alleged rustling activities committed by the latter on Hester's TLH Connected Brand, which led to ambushes, gunfights, and ...
SH-41, which was an east-west route across west-central Oklahoma that began at the intersection of S.W. 29th and May Avenue in Oklahoma City and veered southwest to Mustang, Union City and Minco before continuing west through Binger, Eakly, Cordell and Sayre and then crossing the Texas border near Sweetwater, was redesignated as SH-152 over its ...
Map shows snow totals as of Wednesday morning, Jan. 22, 2025. / Credit: CBS News The state of Louisiana saw a record-breaking snow total of over 11 inches in the city of Chalmette.
When the Oklahoma numbered highway system was established in 1925, the route that would eventually become US-81 was designated as State Highway 2. [11] The US-81 designation was applied the following year, on December 7, 1926.
Grey squirrels, or Eastern grey squirrels, primarily live in the Eastern half of the U.S. and southern Canada. There is also a healthy population in the U.K., where they were imported in the 19th ...