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Engraved whelk shell from Spiro Mounds depicting a falcon warrior. Spiro Mounds [3] is an Indigenous archaeological site located in present-day eastern Oklahoma. The site was built by people from the Arkansas Valley Caddoan culture. [4] that remains from an American Indian culture that was part of the major northern Caddoan Mississippian culture
Antlers is a city in and the county seat of Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, United States. [4] The population was 2,221 as of the 2020 United States census . [ 5 ] The town was named for a kind of tree that becomes festooned with antlers shed by deer, and is taken as a sign of the location of a spring frequented by deer.
Spiro is located 3 miles (4.8 km) south of the Arkansas River, 17 miles (27 km) southwest of Fort Smith, Arkansas and 10 miles (16 km) west of the Oklahoma-Arkansas border. [ 5 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 2.2 square miles (5.7 km 2 ), of which 2.1 square miles (5.4 km 2 ) is land and 0.1 square ...
Pushmataha County is a county in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.As of the 2020 census, the population was 10,812. [1] Its county seat is Antlers. [2]The county was created at statehood from part of the former territory of the Choctaw Nation, which had its capital at the town of Tuskahoma.
The current ZIP Code is 73401 assigned to Ardmore. The community was named for an Ardmore banker, E.S. Poole. [4] In 1907, when Oklahoma became a state, it was decided that Elk should be renamed because the mail kept getting mixed up with Elk City, and so a town meeting was called.
Oklahoma State Highway 199 leads west from the center of Dickson 10 miles (16 km) to the center of Ardmore. According to the United States Census Bureau , Dickson has a total area of 14.1 square miles (36.5 km 2 ), of which 14.0 square miles (36.2 km 2 ) is land and 0.12 square miles (0.3 km 2 ), or 0.81%, is water.
Despite the Spiro, Oklahoma mailing address, the Spiro Mounds and the Spiro Mounds Archaeological Center are in Fort Coffee. [10] [11] W. D. Mayo Lock and Dam, part of the McClellan–Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System, is just northeast of town, [12] while a boat ramp with access to the river above W. D. Mayo Lock and Dam is just north of ...
Antlers owes its existence to the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad—also known as the Frisco Railroad—which opened in June 1887. The railroad, which was built north to south through the mountains and virgin timberlands of the Choctaw Nation of the Indian Territory, brought civilization to the wilderness—three passenger trains operated daily in each direction, plus two freight trains ...