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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. Oklahoma has more than 200 lakes created by dams. All lakes listed are man-made. Oklahoma's only natural lakes are oxbow and playa lakes ...
Crater of Diamonds State Park is situated over an eroded lamproite volcanic pipe. The park is open to the public and, for a small fee, rockhounds and visitors can dig for diamonds and other gemstones. Park visitors find more than 600 diamonds each year of all colors and grades. [5] [6] As of 2015 over 75,000 diamonds had been found in the ...
This lake has a surface area of 1,100 acres (450 ha) and a relatively flat shoreline of 18 miles (29 km). [4] The lake has a surface area of 1,150 acres (4,700,000 m 2), a mean depth of 14 feet (4.3 m), a normal capacity of 16,200 acre-feet (20,000,000 m 3) and a normal pool elevation of 741 feet (226 m) above mean sea level (MSL). Construction ...
It is in southern Johnston and northeastern Marshall Counties in the eastern part of the state, near the upper Washita arm of Lake Texoma. The refuge was established in 1946 and contains 16,464 acres (66.3 km 2 ) of protected land managed by the Fish and Wildlife Service.
In 1929, Carlton Weaver, an editor and politician from Wilburton, donated 120 acres of land near Robbers Cave to the Boy Scouts of America for a campground. The warden of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary arranged for skilled prison inmates to construct camp improvements, including a kitchen and several other buildings, from rock quarried nearby.
"Bromide Pavilion" built by Civilian Conservation Corps in Platt National Park. Photo made July 12, 2007. In 1902, Orville H. Platt, a U.S. Senator from the state of Connecticut, introduced legislation to establish the 640-acre Sulphur Springs Reservation, protecting 32 freshwater and mineral springs, in Murray County, Oklahoma (then part of Indian Territory).
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Cumberland is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Marshall County, Oklahoma, United States. [1] It is about 12 miles east of Madill, Oklahoma off Oklahoma State Highway 199, and is both north and west of nearby Lake Texoma. [2] The population was 315 as of the 2020 Census. [3]