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Guymon (/ ˈ ɡ aɪ m ə n / GHY-mən) is a city and county seat of Texas County, in the panhandle of Oklahoma, United States. [1] As of the 2020 census, the city population was 12,965, [3] an increase of 13.3% from 11,442 in 2010, and represents more than half of the population of the county, along with being the largest city in the Oklahoma Panhandle.
Its county seat is Guymon. As of the 2020 census, the population was 21,384. [1] It is the second largest county in Oklahoma, based on land area, and is named for Texas, the state that adjoins the county to its south. [2] Texas County comprises the Guymon, OK Micropolitan Statistical Area. The county economy is largely based on farming and ...
The Oklahoma panhandle (formerly called No Man's Land, the Public Land Strip, the Neutral Strip, or Cimarron Territory) is a salient in the extreme northwestern region of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Its constituent counties are, from west to east, Cimarron County , Texas County and Beaver County .
Optima Lake was built to be a reservoir in Texas County, Oklahoma.The site is just north of Hardesty and east of Guymon in the Oklahoma Panhandle. [2]The earthen Optima Lake Dam (National ID # OK20510) was completed in 1978 (47 years ago) () by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, with a height of 120 feet (37 m), and a length at its crest of 16,875 feet (5,144 m). [3]
Four Corners is an unincorporated community in western Texas County, Oklahoma, United States. [1] It is located at the western US-64/412/State Highway 3 - SH-95 junction in the Oklahoma Panhandle. Eva is two miles to the north and Guymon is located 22 miles to the east-southeast. [2]
State Highway 136 (abbreviated SH-136) is a state highway in Oklahoma. It runs 36.2 miles (58.3 km) [1] across Texas County in the Oklahoma Panhandle, from the adjoining state of Texas in the south to Kansas in the north. SH-136 does not have any letter-suffixed spur routes branching from it, however, it does have a truck route bypassing ...
State Highway 64D is a highway beginning at US-64 in Moffett, running parallel to the Oklahoma–Arkansas state line to its northern terminus at I-40 exit 330 just west of Dora, Arkansas. SH-64D is 3.65 miles (5.87 km) long. [20] SH-64D first appeared on the 1974 state map. At that time, the highway had a gravel road surface. [44]
Oklahoma has 41 state parks, two national protected forests or grasslands, [12] and a network of wildlife preserves and conservation areas. Six percent of the state's 10 million acres (40,000 km 2 ) of forest is public land, [ 11 ] including the western portions of the Ouachita National Forest , the largest and oldest national forest in the ...