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Corinne is an unincorporated community in southern Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, United States, [1] located 19 miles east of Antlers.Using the Public Land Survey System commonly in use in Oklahoma, the community is located in T22-4S-R19E.
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.
The Land Office was created by the Oklahoma Constitution and is responsible for managing and controlling lands and funds granted to the state under the provisions of the Oklahoma Organic Act. These lands and fund are used to support common schools, colleges and universities. The Commissioners of the Land Office distributes over $125 million ...
The Oklahoma panhandle (formerly called No Man's Land, the Public Land Strip, the Neutral Strip, or Cimarron Territory) is a salient in the extreme northwestern region of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Its constituent counties are, from west to east, Cimarron County, Texas County and Beaver County. As with other salients in the United States, its ...
Most land disputes were settled without bloodshed, although a few took years to resolve. The passage of the Organic Act of 1890 by the United States Congress , signed by 23rd President Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901, served 1889-1893), incorporated the former western Unassigned Lands into the newly organized federal Oklahoma Territory , (which ...
The small scope of the fifth and final land run resulted in numerous lawsuits and land contests. [2] Future land openings were handled by auction or lottery. [2] Many individuals were unable to claim land and Oklahoma Territorial Governor William C. Renfrow opened up an additional 90,000 acres (360 km 2) of school land for lease to give those individuals an opportunity.
Monkey Island, Oklahoma This page was last edited on 8 August 2015, at 05:01 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...
It continued freight operations until 1981, when it closed altogether and its rails were removed. The loss of passenger rail coincided with the construction of Oklahoma State Highway 2. It offered a paved, graded route all the way from Antlers to north of Moyers, at the turn-off to Baugh’s Prairie and Big Mountain. It was completed in the 1980s.