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Map of Tribal Jurisdictional Areas in Oklahoma. This is a list of federally recognized Native American Tribes in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. With its 38 federally recognized tribes, [1] Oklahoma has the third largest numbers of tribes of any state, behind Alaska and California.
The Arbuckle Mountains are an ancient mountain range in south-central Oklahoma in the United States. They lie in Murray, Carter, Pontotoc, and Johnston counties. [ 1] The granite rocks of the Arbuckles date back to the Precambrian Eon some 1.4 billion years ago which were overlain by rhyolites during the Cambrian Period.
The Geography of Oklahoma encompasses terrain and ecosystems ranging from arid plains to subtropical forests and mountains. Oklahoma contains 10 distinct ecological regions, more per square mile than in any other state by a wide margin. [1] It is situated in the Great Plains and U.S. Interior Highlands region near the geographical center of the ...
Leased to the City of Hinton, Oklahoma in 2018. Snowdale State Park: Mayes: 15: 1959: Lake Hudson (Oklahoma) Snowdale became the Snowdale Area at Grand Lake State Park. [6] [7] The Oklahoma Department of Tourism and Recreation chose not to renew its lease from the Grand River Dam Authority in 2019, shutting down the park. [8] Walnut Creek State ...
The Quapaw (/ ˈ k w ɔː p ɔː / KWAW-paw, [2] Quapaw: Ogáxpa) or Arkansas, officially the Quapaw Nation, [3] is a U.S. federally recognized tribe comprising about 5,600 citizens. . Also known as the Ogáxpa or “Downstream” people, their ancestral homelands are traced from what is now the Ohio River, west to the Mississippi River to present-day St. Louis, south across present-day ...
Fort Arbuckle (Oklahoma) / 34.52750°N 97.25000°W / 34.52750; -97.25000. Fort Arbuckle was constructed by the US Army in 1850 to counter raids by Plains Indian tribes on immigrant trains heading west to California and on the settlements of Choctaw and Chickasaw nations in Indian Territory. [2]
Oklahoma originally had seven counties (Logan, Cleveland, Oklahoma, Canadian, Kingfisher, Payne, and Beaver) when it was first organized as the Oklahoma Territory. These counties were designated numerically, first through seventh. New counties added after this were designated by letters of the alphabet. The first seven counties were later renamed.
900 ft (270 m) [2] Settlements. Mena, Arkansas; Heavener, Poteau, and Talihina, Oklahoma. Cedar Lake is in Le Flore County, Oklahoma inside the Ouachita National Forest. Considered a part of Indian Nations National Scenic and Wildlife Area, it is about 12 miles (19 km) south of Heavener, Oklahoma, and 40 miles (64 km) west of Mena, Arkansas.