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Holdenville Lake, also called Lake Holdenville, [1] is a reservoir in Hughes County, Oklahoma. Owned and operated by the City of Holdenville, Oklahoma, it supplies most of the drinking water for Hughes County. [2] It is just 3.5 miles (5.6 km) south of Holdenville and a 1.5 hour drive from Oklahoma City. [3]
Holdenville is located about 75 miles (121 km) from Oklahoma City. [7] Holdenville sits approximately five miles north of the Holdenville City Lake, eight miles north of the Canadian River, and six miles north of the Little River. The area is mostly wooded and flanked by gently rolling hills, interrupted occasionally by small creeks and streams.
Hughes County is a county located in south central U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census, the population was 13,367. [1] Its county seat is Holdenville. [2] The county was named for W. C. Hughes, an Oklahoma City lawyer who was a member of the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention. [3]
The Holdenville City Hall, at 102 Creek St. in Holdenville, Oklahoma, was built in 1910. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. [1] It is a red brick building with prominent stone quoins and other details, and has some architectural pretension, being perhaps Federal-influenced. It was built by contractor Jack Britton ...
Oscar G. Harper, clerk of the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention [41] 3.07 3,190: 1,039 sq mi (2,691 km 2) Haskell County: 061: Stigler: 1907: San Bois County of the Choctaw Nation: Charles N. Haskell, first Governor of Oklahoma [42] 20.51 11,832: 577 sq mi (1,494 km 2) Hughes County: 063: Holdenville: 1907: Choctaw Nation and Creek Nation lands
Pauls Valley is a city in and the county seat of Garvin County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 5,992 at the 2020 census, a decline of 3.2 percent from the figure of 6,187 in 2010. [ 4 ] It was settled by and named for Smith Paul, a North Carolina native who married a Chickasaw woman and became a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation ...
A two-story building constructed in 1912 housed the city hall and the Masonic Lodge. [5] By 1918, four cotton gins, a mill and elevator, a wagonyard, an ice company, and a water and light company had joined the list of businesses open in Wetumka. The 1920 census reported that the population had jumped from 231 in 1910 to 1422 in 1920. [5]
Irving, Texas has entered negotiations with the Hugo to obtain a supply of fresh water by building a pipeline and purchasing excess water from Hugo Lake. In 2002 the Oklahoma state legislature passed a moratorium on water sales outside the state. Hugo sued the state in federal court citing that the state's moratorium is unconstitutional. [6]