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Oklahoma had few natural lakes. Those that did exist were either oxbow or playa lakes. 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 following is a list of lakes in Oklahoma located entirely (or partially, as in the case of Lake Texoma) in the state. Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all. Oklahoma has more than 200 lakes created by dams. All lakes listed are man-made. Oklahoma's only natural lakes are oxbow and playa lakes ...
The St. Marys River (sometimes spelled St. Mary's River) is a 22.3-mile-long (35.9 km) [1] river in southern Maryland in the United States.It rises in southern St. Mary's County, and flows to the southeast through Great Mills, widening into a tidal estuary near St. Mary's City, approximately 2 miles (3 km) wide at its mouth on the north bank of the Potomac River, near the Chesapeake Bay to the ...
The St. Marys River (named Saint Marys River by the United States Geological Survey, [1]) is a 126-mile-long (203 km) [2] river in the southeastern United States. The river was known to the Timucua [ 3 ] [ 4 ] as Thlathlothlaguphka , [ 5 ] or Phlaphlagaphgaw , [ 6 ] meaning "rotten fish". [ 7 ]
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 .
The first lock to be built in the St. Marys River was on the Canadian side in 1798 by the Northwest Fur Company to facilitate the fur trade. [9] It was destroyed by the Americans in 1814 during the War of 1812 to disrupt British trade. [9] Currently, a single small lock is operated on the Canadian side of the Soo.
Conterminous with the boundaries of St. Mary's County, the peninsula covers a land area of 361.25 square miles (935.6 km 2). [5] Northeast of St. Mary's Peninsula, on the opposite side of the Patuxent River, is the smaller Calvert Peninsula. Like St. Mary's Peninsula, Calvert Peninsula also has boundaries conterminous with a single Maryland county.
The station was deactivated in 1962, replaced by the Canadian operated Gros Cap Reefs Light, an unmanned buoy-type beacon in the St. Marys River channel. [17] [18] In 1993 the light quarters and light were completely renovated. [19] In 1975 the Point Iroquois Light was listed on the National Register of Historic Places Reference #75000940. It ...