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The Ozark and Ouachita (pronounced Oh-Wa-Sheet-ah) Mountains rise from west to east over the state's eastern third, gradually increasing in elevation in an eastward direction. [7] [9] Oklahoma had few natural lakes. Those that did exist were either oxbow or playa lakes. Oklahoma has sixty-two oxbow lakes above 10 acres (0.040 km 2) in size.
Oklahoma (/ ˌ oʊ k l ə ˈ h oʊ m ə / ⓘ OHK-lə-HOH-mə; [7] Choctaw: Oklahumma, pronounced) [8] is a landlocked state in the South Central region of the United States. [9] It borders Texas to the south and west, Kansas to the north, Missouri to the northeast, Arkansas to the east, New Mexico to the west, and Colorado to the northwest.
Oklahoma City (/ ˌ oʊ k l ə ˈ h oʊ m ə-/ ⓘ), officially the City of Oklahoma City, and often shortened to OKC, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The county seat of Oklahoma County, [9] its population ranks 20th among United States cities and 8th in the Southern United States.
The Talimena Scenic Drive begins at Mena, and traverses 54 miles (87 km) of Winding Stair and Rich Mountains, long narrow east-west ridges which extend into Oklahoma. Rich Mountain reaches an elevation of 2,681 feet (817 m) in Arkansas near the Oklahoma border.
Its highest elevation is 5,705 feet (1,739 m) in Colorado. [1] The highest point of Black Mesa within New Mexico is 5,239 feet (1,597 m). [ 2 ] In northwestern Cimarron County, Oklahoma , Black Mesa reaches 4,973 feet (1,516 m), the highest point in the state of Oklahoma.
Claremore is a city in and the county seat of Rogers County in northeastern Oklahoma, United States. [5] The population was 19,580 at the 2020 census, a 5.4 percent increase over the figure of 18,581 recorded in 2010. [6] Located in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains. It is home of Rogers State University and is part of the Tulsa metropolitan ...
The Arbuckle Mountains are an ancient mountain range in south-central Oklahoma in the United States.They lie in Murray, Carter, Pontotoc, and Johnston counties. [1] The granite rocks of the Arbuckles date back to the Precambrian Eon some 1.4 billion years ago which were overlain by rhyolites during the Cambrian Period.
The area was incorporated into Oklahoma Territory and later split into three counties when Oklahoma obtained statehood in 1907. As of the 2020 United States census, the region has a population of 28,729, and Texas County is the only county in Oklahoma to have a plurality of Hispanic residents, which make up 48.1 percent of the county's ...