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Lake Texoma is situated on the border between Oklahoma and Texas in the Oklahoma counties of Bryan, Marshall, Johnston, and Love, and the Texas counties of Grayson and Cooke. [6] It has a surface area of 89,000 acres (360 km 2 ), a conservation water volume of 2,525,568 acre⋅ft (3.115242 km 3 ), and a flood-control volume of 5,194,163 acre⋅ ...
Oklahoma State Highway 91 and, to a lesser extent, Texas State Highway 91 cross over the dam. German prisoners of war from Rommel's Afrika Korps were used in the construction of the Denison Dam and Lake Texoma during World War II. They performed non-war-related work such as clearing trees, lining drainage ditches, and building a bathroom facility.
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 ...
Cherokee Landing State Park is a 146-acre (0.59 km 2) Oklahoma state park located in Cherokee County, Oklahoma.It is located near Park Hill, Oklahoma on a peninsula jutting into Lake Tenkiller in the Cookson Hills, south of Tahlequah.
The United States Army Corps of Engineers bought all the land in the area in the late 1930s for Lake Texoma. [13] After the filling of Lake Texoma, only the cemetery was left from Preston; which was on high ground overlooking the town. [13] The cemetery was expanded with a new section when Lake Texoma was created. Some of the existing graves ...
The lake is a popular destination for entertainment in the Green Country region. There are a number of shows in the area, as well as resorts, and a sixty-seven-foot long, twin deck paddle wheel riverboat called the Cherokee Queen, [12] which has been in operation since the 1940s. [2]
Sand Point is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) on Lake Texoma in Bryan County, Oklahoma, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. The CDP is in western Bryan County, on the east shore of the Washita River tributary arm of Lake Texoma, an impoundment on the Red River.
The Great Salt Plains Lake is located at the park and covers 9,300 acres (38 km 2) with 41 miles (66 km) of shoreline and is a shallow, salty lake with fishing opportunities for catfish, saugeye, sandbass and hybrid striper. The average depth is reportedly 4 feet (1.2 m) and the impoundment capacity is 31,420 acre-feet.