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Semi-abandoned: Former coal mining town in eastern Oklahoma Addington [3] Jefferson: 1890s: present: Historic community: Agawam [4] [5] Grady: 1909: 1919: Alluwe [3] Lightning Creek: Nowata: 1872: 1950s: Barren site: Founded by the Delaware Indians. Moved to New Alluwe after the creation of the Oologah Reservoir. Alpha [3] Kingfisher: 1893: ...
Lake Borobudur is an ancient lake that has been suggested once existed surrounding Borobudur Buddhist monument in Kedu Plain, Central Java, Indonesia. Unlike other temples, which were built on a flat surface, Borobudur was built on a bedrock hill, 265 m (869 ft) above sea level and 15 m (49 ft) above the floor of the dried-out paleolake. [ 1 ]
Oklahoma Almanac. (accessed February 11, 2007) Oklahoma Historical Society. Chronicles of Oklahoma. (accessed February 11, 2007) Oklahoma State Department of Education. "School Districts Database" (accessed February 11, 2007) Shirk, George H. Oklahoma Place Names. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987: ISBN 0-8061-2028-2. Supreme Court of ...
Lake Jed Johnson, named for Jed Johnson (1888–1963), is third largest of thirteen small reservoirs in the Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge, located in southwestern Oklahoma. Lawton, Oklahoma , southeast of the lake and the fourth largest city in the state, is the nearest major population center.
The Oklahoma Historical Society established the Spiro Mounds Archaeological Center in 1978 that continues to operate. [5] The site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is preserved as Oklahoma's only Archeological State Park and only pre-contact Native American site open to the public.
This is a list of Superfund sites in Oklahoma designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up ...
Fort Washita is the former United States military post and National Historic Landmark located in Durant, Oklahoma on SH 199.Established in 1842 by General (later President) Zachary Taylor to protect citizens of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations from the Plains Indians, it was later abandoned by Federal forces at the beginning of the American Civil War.
The park covers 820 acres and includes a small lake. [4] It is located northeast of Woodward in a portion of Oklahoma known for a semi-arid climate and sparse vegetation. The park itself includes a forest of hackberry, walnut, soapberry (also called chinaberry), oak, and elm, attracting whitetail deer, wild turkey, raccoon, coyote, bobcat ...