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All lakes listed are man-made. Oklahoma's only natural lakes are oxbow and playa lakes. Oklahoma has sixty-two oxbow lakes at least 10 acres in size. The largest, near the Red River in McCurtain County, is 272 acres. Playa lakes are found in saucer-shaped depressions in the high plains region. They are usually intermittent, holding water only ...
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 .
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Lakes of Oklahoma by county (1 C) Pages in category "Lakes of Oklahoma"
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 ...
The Wisconsin River is a tributary of the Mississippi River in the U.S. state of Wisconsin.At approximately 430 miles (692 km) long, it is the state's longest river. The river's name was first recorded in 1673 by Jacques Marquette as "Meskousing" from his Indian guides - most likely Miami for "river running through a red place."
A new study ranking the cleanest and dirtiest lakes in the U.S. places three Oklahoma lakes among the top 10 dirtiest lakes in the country.
Oklahoma has sixty-two oxbow lakes above 10 acres (0.040 km 2) in size. The largest, near the Red River in McCurtain County is 272 acres (1.10 km 2 ). The prolonged drought that started in 1930 and created the condition called the " Dust Bowl ", led to the construction of a great many reservoirs throughout the state.
From just north of Catoosa, Oklahoma to the river's confluence with the Arkansas, barge traffic is supported on the river via the McClellan-Kerr Navigation System. This consists of a series of locks and dams on the Arkansas and the Verdigris rivers; this system enables commercial navigation between the Tulsa, Oklahoma , area and the Mississippi ...