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The Ogallala Aquifer (oh-gə-LAH-lə) is a shallow water table aquifer surrounded by sand, silt, clay, and gravel located beneath the Great Plains in the United States. As one of the world's largest aquifers, it underlies an area of approximately 174,000 sq mi (450,000 km 2) in portions of eight states (South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas). [1]
Kirkwood–Cohansey Aquifer, is located under the Pine Barrens (New Jersey) of southern New Jersey, contains 17 trillion US gallons (64 km 3) of some of the purest water in the United States. Mahomet Aquifer supplies water to some 800,000 people in central Illinois and contains approximately four trillion US gallons (15 km 3 ) of water.
The greatest threat to the Blue River is the withdrawal of water for human use from the Arbuckle-Simpson Aquifer. Withdrawal exceeds recharge which reduces the flow of the river. In 2011, to help protect the aquifer and the land, the Nature Conservancy purchased 490 acres of land along the river near Connerville.
The Deep Fork begins in and around northern Oklahoma City and flows eastward through Oklahoma County where five miles of the river is impounded by Arcadia Lake.Below the lake the river crosses into Lincoln County, winds back and forth across the Creek–Okfuskee county lines, crosses into Okmulgee County, meanders through the 9,600-acre (39 km 2) Deep Fork National Wildlife Refuge near the ...
Bodies of water of Texas County, Oklahoma (1 C, 2 P) Bodies of water of Tillman County, Oklahoma (1 P) Bodies of water of Tulsa County, Oklahoma (1 C, 2 P) W.
County A in Oklahoma Territory: Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States: 36.04 34,562: 959 sq mi (2,484 km 2) Logan County: 083: Guthrie: 1891: County 1 in Oklahoma Territory: John A. Logan, American Civil War general: 71.18 53,029: 745 sq mi (1,930 km 2) Love County: 085: Marietta: 1907: Pickens County, Chickasaw Nation ...
Bodies of water of Oklahoma by county (74 C) C. Canals in Oklahoma (2 P) L. Lakes of Oklahoma (2 C, 19 P) R. Rivers of Oklahoma (4 C, 80 P) S. Springs of Oklahoma (2 P)
This is a list of rivers in the state of Oklahoma, listed by drainage basin, alphabetically, and by size. In mean flow of water per second, the Arkansas is Oklahoma's largest river, followed by the Red River and the Neosho River .