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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 ...
Tenkiller Ferry Lake, or more simply, Lake Tenkiller, is a reservoir in eastern Oklahoma formed by the damming of the Illinois River.The earth-fill dam was constructed between 1947 and 1952 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers for purposes of flood control, hydroelectric power generation, water supply and recreation.
Map of Oklahoma with area code boundaries. The state of Oklahoma is served by the following area codes: 405/572: Central Oklahoma including Oklahoma City (original area code created in 1947; 572 added as overlay on April 24, 2021 [1] [2] [3] 580: Western and southern Oklahoma (split from 405 in 1997)
More than 500 named creeks and rivers make up Oklahoma's waterways, and with 200 lakes created by dams, it holds the highest number of reservoirs in the nation. [4] Oklahoma covers an area of 69,898 square miles (181,030 km 2 ), with 68,667 square miles (177,850 km 2 ) of land and 1,231 square miles (3,190 km 2 ) of water, making it the 20th ...
The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation administers 18,000 acres (73 km 2) at the lake, and the US Army Corps of Engineers manage 8,000. [4] These areas are home to white tail deer, waterfowl, mink, fox, and beaver. The Group Camp Area has four sites. The area has a combination waterborne shower and toilet building and swimming beach ...
Woods County, Oklahoma Territory: John C. Major, member of the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention: 7.92 7,581: 957 sq mi (2,479 km 2) Marshall County: 095: Madill: 1907: Pickens County, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory [52] The maiden name of a member of the Constitutional Convention's mother: 43.05 15,970: 371 sq mi (961 km 2) Mayes County ...
The earthen dam was completed in 1950, and is 89 feet (27 m) above the original streambed and 2,920 feet (890 m) long. [3] [4]The lake capacity is 55,030 acre-feet (67,880,000 m 3); the conservation storage provides 3,800 acre-feet (4,700,000 m 3) of storage which includes 1,900 acre-feet (2,300,000 m 3) for water supply and 1,900 acre-feet (2,300,000 m 3) for sediment reserve. [3]
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