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Elk City is a city in Beckham County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 11,561 at the time of the 2020 census , [ 4 ] a slight decrease from the 11,693 figure of the 2010 census . [ 5 ] Elk City is located on Interstate 40 and Historic U.S. Route 66 in western Oklahoma, approximately 110 miles (180 km) west of Oklahoma City and 150 ...
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
Creek town of the same name in Cleburn County, Alabama: 18.08 11,300: 625 sq mi (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 ...
The main article for this category is List of municipalities in Oklahoma; Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cities in Oklahoma; See also Oklahoma and categories Townships in Oklahoma, Towns in Oklahoma, Census-designated places in Oklahoma, Unincorporated communities in Oklahoma
SH-6 in downtown Elk City The original State Highway 6 extended from the Texas state line near Colbert to the Kansas state line north of Vinita . [ 3 ] When the United States Numbered Highways system was established in 1926, the vast majority of the highway was overlapped by US-75 and US-73 . [ 4 ] (
The city is home to the University of Central Oklahoma and the Edmond Historical Society & Museum. This article originally appeared on Oklahoman: Top cities to live in Oklahoma? World Atlas says ...
The French had called the river "Faux Ouachita", literally meaning "false Washita", to distinguish it from the ‘true’ Ouachita in Arkansas and Louisiana. The spelling of the name of the Oklahoma Washita was changed by substituting "w" for "ou". [6] An election in 1900 designated the town of Cordell as the county seat. It was favored by the ...
The Sweetwater Public School District, [9] [10] which covers the town, is one of the smallest public school districts in Oklahoma. [citation needed] For 2007, it tied with Boley for the smallest high school with 15 students. For a combined district, K-12, Sweetwater finished third behind Boley (51) and Clarita (58), with 60 students. [11]