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In Oklahoma, cities are all those communities which are 1,000 or more in population and are incorporated as cities. [2] Towns are limited to town board type of municipal government. Cities may choose among aldermanic, mayoral, council-manager, and home-rule charter types of government. [3] Cities may also petition to incorporate as towns. [4
(1,619 km 2) Oklahoma County: 109: Oklahoma City: 1891: Unassigned Lands in Indian Territory, the County 2 in Oklahoma Territory [59] From two Choctaw words okla and humma, meaning people and red: 1,140.85 808,866: 709 sq mi (1,836 km 2) Okmulgee County: 111: Okmulgee: 1907: Creek Nation land: Creek word meaning boiling water: 53.13 37,035: 697 ...
Municipalities (incorporated settlements) in the U.S. state of Oklahoma, which includes cities and towns. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Oklahoma (/ ˌ oʊ k l ə ˈ h oʊ m ə / ⓘ OHK-lə-HOH-mə; [7] Choctaw: Oklahumma, pronounced) [8] is a landlocked state in the South Central region of the United States. [9] It borders Texas to the south and west, Kansas to the north, Missouri to the northeast, Arkansas to the east, New Mexico to the west, and Colorado to the northwest.
Map of Comanche County, showing settlements and major roads. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,084 square miles (2,810 km 2), of which 1,069 square miles (2,770 km 2) is land and 14 square miles (36 km 2) (1.3%) is water. [13]
However, the city has now planned to de-annex this area back to the city of Tulsa. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city of Sapulpa has a total area of 25.1 square miles (65.1 km 2), of which 24.3 square miles (63.0 km 2) is land and 0.81 square miles (2.1 km 2), or 3.21%, is water. [31]
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.
Berry, Shelley, Small Towns, Ghost Memories of Oklahoma: A Photographic Narrative of Hamlets and Villages Throughout Oklahoma's Seventy-seven Counties (Virginia Beach, Va.: Donning Company Publishers, 2004). Blake Gumprecht, "A Saloon On Every Corner: Whiskey Towns of Oklahoma Territory, 1889-1907," The Chronicles of Oklahoma 74 (Summer 1996).