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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 .
All lakes listed are man-made. Oklahoma's only natural lakes are oxbow and playa lakes. Oklahoma has sixty-two oxbow lakes at least 10 acres in size. The largest, near the Red River in McCurtain County, is 272 acres. Playa lakes are found in saucer-shaped depressions in the high plains region. They are usually intermittent, holding water only ...
More than 500 named creeks and rivers make up Oklahoma's waterways, and with 200 lakes created by dams, it holds the highest number of reservoirs in the nation. [4] Oklahoma covers an area of 69,898 square miles (181,030 km 2 ), with 68,667 square miles (177,850 km 2 ) of land and 1,231 square miles (3,190 km 2 ) of water, making it the 20th ...
Map of Oklahoma highlighting Northwestern Oklahoma. The Glass Mountains are a series of mesas south of the Cimarron River.. Northwestern Oklahoma is the geographical region of the state of Oklahoma which includes the Oklahoma Panhandle and a majority of the Cherokee Outlet, stretching to an eastern extent along Interstate 35, and its southern extent along the Canadian River to Noble County.
Frontière entre l'Oklahoma et le Texas; Liste des régions des États-Unis; Usage on fy.wikipedia.org Panhandle fan Oklahoma; Usage on ja.wikipedia.org オクラホマ・パンハンドル; アメリカ合衆国の地域; Usage on nl.wikipedia.org Oklahoma Panhandle; Usage on no.wikipedia.org Oklahoma Panhandle; Usage on pt.wikipedia.org ...
Located in the middle of the Oklahoma panhandle, the 4,333-acre (17.54 km 2) Optima National Wildlife Refuge is made up of grasslands and wooded bottomland on the Coldwater Creek arm of the Optima Lake project.
Optima Lake was built to be a reservoir in Texas County, Oklahoma.The site is just north of Hardesty and east of Guymon in the Oklahoma Panhandle. [2]The earthen Optima Lake Dam (National ID # OK20510) was completed in 1978 (47 years ago) () by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, with a height of 120 feet (37 m), and a length at its crest of 16,875 feet (5,144 m). [3]
According to the 2020 census, Oklahoma is the 28th most populous state with 3,959,353 inhabitants but the 19th largest by land area spanning 68,594.92 square miles (177,660.0 km 2) of land. Oklahoma is divided into 77 counties and contains 596 municipalities consisting of cities and towns.