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The state of Oklahoma historically had civil townships.On August 5, 1913, voters passed the Oklahoma Township Amendment, also known as State Question 58. [1] This allowed the creation or abolishment of townships on a county by county basis; by the mid-1930s, all Oklahoma counties had voted to abolish them. [2]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Payne County, Oklahoma, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. [1]
Optima is located approximately nine miles northeast of Guymon on U.S. Route 54 in the Oklahoma Panhandle. The course of the Beaver River runs about two miles south of the community and enters Optima Lake about nine miles to the southeast. [5] It is on the route of the Union Pacific Railroad. [6]
Carter County is a county in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.As of the 2020 census, the population was 48,003. [1] Its county seat is Ardmore. [2] The county was named for Captain Ben W. Carter, a Cherokee who lived among the Chickasaw. [3]
Pawnee County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.As of the 2020 census, the population was 15,553. [1] Its county seat is Pawnee. [2] The county is named after the Pawnee Nation, [3] whose reservation used to encompass the county prior to allotment in 1893.
The county was founded at the time of Oklahoma statehood in 1907, and was named for Senator Benjamin Tillman of South Carolina. It had previously been part of Comanche County, Oklahoma Territory. Frederick was designated as the county seat at the time of statehood. In 1910 and 1924 portions of Kiowa County were added to the north side of the ...
In 1903, the Oklahoma Central Railroad (OCR) was very interested in building a community one mile south of Johnsonville, where the OCR was building an east–west line. Katie Byars and her husband donated land to be used for this purpose, despite opposition from their neighbors in Johnsonville.
Kinta is a town in Haskell County, Oklahoma, United States. [4] The population was 297 at the 2010 census, an increase of 22.2 percent over the figure of 243 recorded in 2000. [ 5 ]