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Grove is a city in Delaware County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 6,623 at the 2010 census , an increase of 27.6 percent over the figure of 5,131 recorded in 2000. [ 4 ] Grove is surrounded by Grand Lake o’ the Cherokees , a professional bass fishing tournament lake and recreational hotspot during the travel season of Memorial ...
MapQuest (stylized as mapquest) is an American free online web mapping service. It was launched in 1996 as the first commercial web mapping service. [ 1 ] MapQuest's competitors include Apple Maps , Here , and Google Maps .
Monkey Island is a peninsula on the northern shore of Grand Lake o' the Cherokees, located 8 miles (13 km) southwest of Grove, Oklahoma. [1] It is 6 miles (9.7 km) long from north to south and State Highway 125 runs through the peninsula to its southern end. [2] [3] [4]
The lake is a popular destination for entertainment in the Green Country region. There are a number of shows in the area, as well as resorts, and a sixty-seven-foot long, twin deck paddle wheel riverboat called the Cherokee Queen, [12] which has been in operation since the 1940s. [2]
Its largest shareholder is the family of Robert Kuok, a Malaysian Chinese businessman and the founder of Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts. It incorporated in Bermuda with limited liability and was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 1996. [4] [5] [6]
A second SH-59B runs east from SH-102 through Macomb, ending at US-177 / SH-3W north of Asher, a distance of 6.93 miles (11.15 km).(Neither Mapquest nor Google Maps show these endpoints; they instead indicate 59B runs from the vicinity of the Pottawatomie/Cleveland County line, well west of SH-102, east past that road to US-177.
Metropolitan Area Projects Plan (MAPS) is a multi-year, municipal capital improvement program, consisting of a number of projects, originally conceived in the 1990s in Oklahoma City by its then mayor Ron Norick. A MAPS program features several interrelated and defined capital projects, funded by a temporary sales tax (allowing projects to be ...
Shangri-La is a fictional place in Tibet's Kunlun Mountains, [1] described in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon by English author James Hilton. Hilton portrays Shangri-La as a mystical, harmonious valley, gently guided from a lamasery , enclosed in the western end of the Kunlun Mountains. [ 1 ]