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In northeastern New Mexico and in far western Oklahoma, the river is known as the Dry Cimarron River. The Dry Cimarron is not completely dry, but sometimes its water entirely disappears under the sand in the river bed. The Dry Cimarron Scenic Byway follows the river from Folsom to the Oklahoma border. The waterway becomes simply the Cimarron ...
Map of Oklahoma highlighting Northwestern Oklahoma. The Glass Mountains are a series of mesas south of the Cimarron River.. Northwestern Oklahoma is the geographical region of the state of Oklahoma which includes the Oklahoma Panhandle and a majority of the Cherokee Outlet, stretching to an eastern extent along Interstate 35, and its southern extent along the Canadian River to Noble County.
South Carrizo Creek forms either just west of the Oklahoma line in New Mexico, [1] or east inside Oklahoma to the northwest of Wheeless, Oklahoma. [2] It is intermittent. [3] It travels generally northeast through Black Mesa State Park where it is impounded to form Lake Carl Etling, [3] before being joined by Willow Creek and continuing northeast to flow into the Cimarron River.
English: The maps use data from nationalatlas.gov, specifically countyp020.tar.gz on the Raw Data Download page. The maps also use state outline data from statesp020.tar.gz . The Florida maps use hydrogm020.tar.gz to display Lake Okeechobee.
Black Mesa is a mesa located in an area covering parts of the U.S. states of Colorado, New Mexico, and Oklahoma.It extends from Mesa de Maya, Colorado southeasterly 28 miles (45 km) crossing into the northeast corner of New Mexico, and ending in the Oklahoma panhandle along the north bank of the Cimarron River at its confluence with the North Carrizo Creek near Kenton.
Kenton is a census-designated place (CDP) in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, United States. [2] [3] As of the 2020 census, the community had 31 residents.[4]Kenton, which lies in the Cimarron River valley, is just south of Black Mesa, the highest point in Oklahoma, and serves as an unofficial staging point for visitors to the site. [5]
[2] [3] North Carrizo Creek then flows generally south-southeast into Oklahoma to join the Cimarron River northeast of Kenton, Oklahoma. [4] The creek has also been known as Carrizo Creek, Carrizozo Creek, Carrizzo Creek, and North Carrizozo Creek. [1] (There is a Carrizozo Creek in the area, but it joins the Cimarron River to the west.) [5]
Ripley is a town in southeastern Payne County, Oklahoma, United States. [4] The population was 423 at the 2010 census, a decline of 9.2 percent from the figure of 444 in 2000 . [ 5 ] The town was named after Edward Ripley , the 14th president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway .