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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 .
Muddy Boggy Creek, also known as the Muddy Boggy River, [2] is a 175-mile-long (282 km) [3] river in south central Oklahoma. The stream headwaters arise just east of Ada in Pontotoc County . [ 2 ] [ 4 ] It is a major tributary of the Red River in south central Oklahoma.
Oklahoma has sixty-two oxbow lakes above 10 acres (0.040 km 2) in size. The largest, near the Red River in McCurtain County is 272 acres (1.10 km 2). The prolonged drought that started in 1930 and created the condition called the "Dust Bowl", led to the construction of a great many reservoirs throughout the state.
U.S. Route 81 (US-81) is a north–south U.S. highway running through the central United States' Great Plains region, from Fort Worth, Texas to the U.S.–Canadian border at Pembina, North Dakota. A 229.28-mile (368.99 km) segment of the highway lies within the state of Oklahoma .
Oklahoma Digital Maps: Digital Collections of Oklahoma and Indian Territory 34°03′23″N 95°47′57″W / 34.05639°N 95.79917°W / 34.05639; -95 This article related to a river in Oklahoma is a stub .
State of Oklahoma sign designating Cache Creek. Cache Creek is a small creek in Cotton County, Oklahoma and a tributary of the Red River. [1] Cache Creek has a distance of 5.5 miles (8.9 km) from the Red River to the East Cache Creek and West Cache Creek basin.
That event, which started on April 22, 1889, is also a source of generational trauma for many Oklahoma tribal members, who are reminded by the 1889 Oklahoma Land Run of their ancestors' forcible ...
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 and Spencer, Oklahoma, two towns downstream of Oklahoma City, had been surrounded by water. The official ...