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Sardis Lake is a reservoir in Pushmataha and Latimer counties in Oklahoma, USA.It was created about 1980 as the result of a dam constructed on Jackfork Creek, a tributary of the Kiamichi River, by the United States Corps of Engineers under contract to the state.
Sardis was a community in northern Pushmataha County, Oklahoma. United States. [1] The location is six miles northwest of Clayton. A United States Post Office was established at Sardis, Indian Territory on February 20, 1905. It took its name from the nearby Sardis Indian Mission Church, which appears to have named itself after the Biblical city ...
The following is a list of lakes in Oklahoma located entirely (or partially, as in the case of Lake Texoma) in the state. Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all.
Eufaula Lake: Oklahoma: 169 sq mi 438 km 2: man-made * Tulare Lake: California: 168 sq mi 435 km 2: natural normally a dry lake, melting snowpack and rainfall have left Tulare Lake at 168 square miles as of June 2023 [14] 35 Lake Marion: South Carolina: 165 sq mi 427 km 2: man-made 36 Leech Lake: Minnesota: 161 sq mi 417 km 2: natural 37 Sardis ...
Enid, Grenada and Sardis lakes, along with the Arkabutla Lake, which is currently closed to boating for dam repairs, are among the top lakes in the nation for crappie, but anglers and biologists ...
The Kiamichi River has been studied since at least 1894, when the first scientific fish collection was made at Walnut Creek at Albion, Oklahoma. This collection netted 36 different kinds of fish. Since construction of Sardis and Hugo dams in the 1970s and 1980s the river has suffered in environmental quality.
Many central Oklahomans have come to know this lake by a filthy nickname. North of State Highway 9 in northeast Norman is Lake Thunderbird, or as many call it, "Dirty Bird."
SH-43 re-enters Pushmataha County southwest of the far south arm of Sardis Lake, a reservoir formed by impounding Jackfork Creek. The highway runs along the south shore of the lake. [2] At the southwest corner of the lake, SH-43 runs across the top of the lake's dam. Northeast of the dam, the highway intersects SH-2. This intersection is the ...