When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Picher, Oklahoma - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picher,_Oklahoma

    Picher is a ghost town and former city in Ottawa County, northeastern Oklahoma, United States. It was a major national center of lead and zinc mining for more than 100 years in the heart of the Tri-State Mining District .

  3. Tar Creek Superfund site - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_Creek_Superfund_site

    Tar Creek Superfund site is a United States Superfund site, declared in 1983, located in the cities of Picher, Douthat and Cardin, Ottawa County, in northeastern Oklahoma. From 1900 to the 1960s lead mining and zinc mining companies left behind huge open chat piles that were heavily contaminated by these metals, cadmium , and others.

  4. File:Ottawa County Oklahoma incorporated and unincorporated ...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ottawa_County...

    English: Map showing the location of this town within Ottawa County, Oklahoma. Data source: 2010 U.S. Census. Date: ... Picher (Oklahoma) Usage on ja.wikipedia.org

  5. How the once-booming mine town of Picher, Oklahoma ... - AOL

    www.aol.com/once-booming-mine-town-picher...

    Picher, Oklahoma was incorporated in 1918 after ore was discovered. All that remains in the ghost town are empty buildings and piles of toxic waste. Picher, Oklahoma was incorporated in 1918 after ...

  6. List of Superfund sites in Oklahoma - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Superfund_sites_in...

    This is a list of Superfund sites in Oklahoma designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]

  7. List of ghost towns in Oklahoma - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/.../List_of_ghost_towns_in_Oklahoma

    Picher [3] [4] Ottawa: 1915: 2009: Abandoned: Large zinc mining town. ... Abandoned Oklahoma; Google Map of Ghost Towns In Oklahoma; Website - Ghost Towns In Oklahoma

  8. Tri-State district - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-State_district

    View of mines, plant, rail yard in Cardin, Oklahoma (1922) An unusual cluster of galena crystals from the Tri-State district. The gold-colored mineral is chalcopyrite. Size: 3.9 x 3.4 x 2.5 cm. The Tri-State district was a historic lead-zinc mining district located in present-day southwest Missouri, southeast Kansas and northeast Oklahoma. The ...

  9. Ottawa County, Oklahoma - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa_County,_Oklahoma

    Unrestricted mining resulted in severe environmental degradation, and mining centers such as Picher, Oklahoma in the county were included within the Tar Creek Superfund Site in 1980. In 1996 the government found that 34% of the children of Picher had lead poisoning due to groundwater, air and dust effects. Environmental remediation was ...