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King Ranch is the largest ranch in the United States. At some 825,000 acres (3,340 km 2 ; 1,289 sq mi) [ 3 ] it is larger than both the land area of Rhode Island and the area of the European country Luxembourg . [ 4 ]
There are three developed recreation areas in Oklahoma and one in Texas. Dead Warrior Lake (formerly Dead Indian Lake) is 80 acres (32 ha) in size and is 11 miles (18 km) north of Cheyenne. Spring Creek Lake is 14 miles (23 km) north of Cheyenne and is 50 acres (20 ha) in size. Sixty-acre (24 ha) Skipout Lake is 10 miles (16 km) west of ...
Double Hill Station, located on the Rakaia River; Erewhon Station, named after a fictitious place (based on Mesopotamia Station) in Samuel Butler's book "Erewhon" Flock Hill; Glenaray Station; Maraekakaho; Marainanga; Matanaka Farm; Mesopotamia Station; Molesworth Station; St James Station (became conservation land) Terawhiti Station; Walter ...
Beaver River WMA [13] Beaver: 17,700 acres (7,200 ha) Southeast of Turpin in the western part of the county In the Oklahoma panhandle: Black Kettle WMA [14] Roger Mills: 30,710 acres (12,430 ha) Near Cheyenne: Connected with the Black Kettle National Grassland owned by the U.S. Forest Service [15] Blue River WMA [16] Johnston: 3,367 acres ...
This area has 800 acres (3.2 km 2) of mostly forested bluffs above the Missouri River and 780 acres (3.2 km 2) of Missouri River floodplain. This area also has stream frontage along the Missouri and Nodaway Rivers. 1,624 acres 657 ha: Holt
Texas, with 129 million acres of agricultural land, has more farms and ranches than any other state and great potential to store carbon, but it is also losing farmland faster than any other state ...
The North Canadian River is named Beaver River or Beaver Creek on its course through the Panhandle. Its land area is 5,686 square miles (14,730 km 2) and comprises 8.28 percent of Oklahoma's land area. [3] The area includes Beaver Dunes Park with sand dunes along the Beaver River and Optima Lake, the home of the Optima National Wildlife Refuge.
A view of Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in Osage County, Oklahoma. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 2,304 square miles (5,970 km 2), of which 2,246 square miles (5,820 km 2) is land and 58 square miles (150 km 2) (2.5%) is water. [6] It is the largest county in Oklahoma by area.