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Water levels in the river are generally adequate for boating year-round. [3] On the upper portion of Broken Bow Lake is the McCurtain County Wilderness Area, an Oklahoma State-owned 14,000 acres (5,700 ha) tract which contains the largest remaining virgin shortleaf pine/hardwood forest in the nation. Hunting is permitted in the wilderness area.
Its common names include watery rose apple, water apple and bell fruit, [2] and jambu in Malay and several Indian languages. The tree is cultivated for its wood and edible fruit. The fruit is a fleshy whitish-pinkish to yellowish-pinkish or red berry which is bell shaped, waxy and crisp. Syzygium aqueum is native to tropical Asia and Queensland ...
This is a list of rivers in the state of Oklahoma, listed by drainage basin, alphabetically, and by size. In mean flow of water per second, the Arkansas is Oklahoma's largest river, followed by the Red River and the Neosho River .
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Within thirty minutes, the initial rush of water had raised the downstream river level by 7 feet (2.1 m). The river held at that level for two hours, but by then the level at the east end of the dam failed, sending the downstream river level 2 feet (0.61 m) higher in a matter of minutes. [8] By the time the crisis had passed, Jones, Oklahoma ...
The Glover River is a 33.2-mile-long (53.4 km) [1] tributary of the Little River in the Ouachita Mountains of southeastern Oklahoma in the United States. Via the Little and Red rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River. The Glover River flows for its entire length in McCurtain County.
Optima Lake was built to be a reservoir in Texas County, Oklahoma.The site is just north of Hardesty and east of Guymon in the Oklahoma Panhandle. [2]The earthen Optima Lake Dam (National ID # OK20510) was completed in 1978 (46 years ago) () by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, with a height of 120 feet (37 m), and a length at its crest of 16,875 feet (5,144 m). [3]
The lake is essentially dry most of the time, because of declining water table levels [5] and periodic droughts that have affected the panhandles of Oklahoma and Texas. [ b ] As a result, the lake project (completed in 1978), was largely abandoned in 2010 when picnic tables and other structures were demolished for safety reasons.