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The Blue River is a 141-mile-long (227 km) [2] tributary of the Red River in southern Oklahoma in the United States. Via the Red River, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River . According to the Geographic Names Information System , the river has also been known as Blue Creek .
A Cherokee man by the name of Dave Blue built a trading post on Dave Blue Creek in present-day Norman, less than a mile south of Oklahoma State Highway 9 on 48th Avenue SE. He would employ Cherokee and Creek Indians to hunt buffalo and then ship the hides to Atoka to market. [24]
Additional exposure of the rhyolite is found in Blue Creek Canyon, where Oklahoma Highway 58 cuts through the Slick Hills. Tabular intrusions of granite and plutons of hydrous gabbro exploited the boundary between the layered complex and the rhyolites. [13]
The state of Oklahoma historically had civil townships.On August 5, 1913, voters passed the Oklahoma Township Amendment, also known as State Question 58. [1] This allowed the creation or abolishment of townships on a county by county basis; by the mid-1930s, all Oklahoma counties had voted to abolish them. [2]
Blue River (Oklahoma) Buck Creek (Kiamichi River tributary) Buffalo Creek (Elk River tributary, Oklahoma) Buffalo Creek (Mountain Fork) C. Cache Creek (Oklahoma)
McGee Creek WMA [61] Atoka county: 10,000 acres (4,000 ha) 11 miles east of Stringtown in the south-central part of the county The WMA is situated in the middle of the V-shaped 3,800 acres (1,500 ha) McGee Creek Lake that is fed by Potapo Creek from the northwest and McGee Creek from the north. [62] McGee Creek State Park is on the southeast ...
Blue is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Bryan County, Oklahoma, United States. [3] It is located 9 miles (14 km) east of Durant, the county seat. It is named after the nearby Blue River. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 195. [4] Its post office was established on July 1, 1874. [5]
Blue County was bordered on its north by Atoka County, Choctaw Nation and on its east by Jackson County, Choctaw Nation. To its west was the Chickasaw Nation. [5] Originally larger than in later years, Blue County lost territory when a new county, Jackson County, was carved out of portions of Atoka County, Blue County and Kiamitia County in ...