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The community began in 1899 when two men, J.L. Avant and E.E. Blake, decided to locate a town in the Washita River Valley.. Because of governmental stipulations that an Indian could sell no more than one half of a 160-acre (0.6 km 2) allotment, the men made plans to purchase 320 acres (1.3 km 2) from four different Indians (Hays, Shoe-Boy, Nowahy, and Night Killer) and paid them each $2,000 ...
Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base (1954–1969) is a former United States Air Force base located near the town of Burns Flat in Washita County, Oklahoma, 15 miles (24 km) southwest of the city of Clinton, Oklahoma. Today it is the site of the Clinton-Sherman Industrial Airpark.
Naval Air Station Clinton (1942–1969) In Washita County. Trained naval aviators during World War II. The U.S. Navy left the area in 1946. In 1954 the U.S. Air Force took over the site to train bomber pilots and the name was changed to Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base. In 1959 Clinton-Sherman became a bomber base housing B-52 Stratofortresses ...
The Clinton-Sherman Industrial Airpark, also known as the Oklahoma Air & Space Port is a spaceport in Washita County, Oklahoma, near the town of Burns Flat. [2] The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) granted a license to the site in June 2006 to the Oklahoma Space Industry Development Authority (OSIDA) to "oversee the takeoff and landing of ...
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Custer County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census, the population was 28,513. [1] Its county seat is Arapaho. [2] The county was named in honor of General George Armstrong Custer. Custer County comprises the Weatherford, Oklahoma, Micropolitan Statistical Area.