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Oscar G. Harper, clerk of the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention [41] 3.07 3,190: 1,039 sq mi (2,691 km 2) Haskell County: 061: Stigler: 1907: San Bois County of the Choctaw Nation: Charles N. Haskell, first Governor of Oklahoma [42] 20.51 11,832: 577 sq mi (1,494 km 2) Hughes County: 063: Holdenville: 1907: Choctaw Nation and Creek Nation lands
The company was founded in Rockford, Illinois, in 1870 with Amos W. Woodward's invention of a non compensating mechanical waterwheel governor (U.S. patent No. 103,813). [5] [8] Thirty years later, his son Elmer patented the first successful mechanical compensating governor for hydraulic turbines (U.S. patent No. 583,527). [9]
The Constitution of Oklahoma calls for the election of a governor every four years, to take office on the second Monday in January after the election. [22] Originally, governors could not succeed themselves, with no limit on total terms; [ 23 ] a 1966 constitutional amendment allowed them to succeed themselves once. [ 24 ]
Woodward County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census, the population was 20,470. [1] Its county seat is Woodward. [2] Woodward County comprises the Woodward, OK micropolitan statistical area.
Woodward is a city in and the county seat of Woodward County, Oklahoma, United States. [4] It is the largest city in a nine-county area . [ 5 ] The population was 12,133 at the time of the 2020 census .
On March 6, 2020, the OMB delineated six combined statistical areas, five metropolitan statistical areas, and 17 micropolitan statistical areas in Oklahoma. [1] As of 2023, the largest of these is the Oklahoma City-Shawnee, OK CSA, comprising the area around Oklahoma City, Oklahoma's capital and largest city.
Oklahoma is a state located in the Southern United States. [1] 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 ...
Downtown Oklahoma City. Downtown Oklahoma City itself is currently undergoing a renaissance.Between the mid-1980s and 1990s, downtown was unchanged and largely vacant. It was the scene of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on 5th Street between Robinson and Harvey Avenues, caused by convicted domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh; most buildings within a 1-mile (1.6 km) radius ...