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The U.S. state of Oklahoma has 77 counties. It is ranked 20th in size and 17th in the number of counties, between Mississippi with 82 counties and Arkansas with 75 counties. [1] Oklahoma originally had seven counties (Logan, Cleveland, Oklahoma, Canadian, Kingfisher, Payne, and Beaver) when it was first organized as the Oklahoma Territory ...
The US 77 James C. Nance Memorial Bridge [3] connecting Purcell and Lexington [4] was originally built as a circa 1938 deck truss two-lane bridge and in 2019 rebuilt as a concrete pier four-lane bridge [5] crossing the Canadian River and the BNSF Railway between Purcell and Lexington, Oklahoma. [6]
Rivers of Woodward County, Oklahoma (4 P) This page was last edited on 22 July 2017, at 03:31 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
View of Fourche Maline. Fourche Maline (pronounced foosh-ma-lean) (Bad Fork, French) is a 70.0-mile-long (112.7 km) [1] tributary of the Poteau River in Oklahoma. [a] The headwaters of Fourche Maline are in the Sans Bois Mountains in northwest Latimer County.
This is a list of rivers in the state of Oklahoma, listed by drainage basin, alphabetically, and by size. In mean flow of water per second, the Arkansas is Oklahoma's largest river, followed by the Red River and the Neosho River .
The North Canadian River is a river, 440 miles (710 km) long, [4] in Oklahoma in the United States. It is a tributary of the Canadian River, draining an area of 17,955 square miles (46,500 km 2) [5] in a watershed that includes parts of northeastern New Mexico and the Texas Panhandle.
In 1719, Bernard de la Harpe led a group of French explorers through this area and gave the river its present name. The present day city was founded in 1885, its name derived from the nearby Poteau River. [6] During the late 1700s, there was a large French outpost at Belle Point (Ft. Smith).
On John C. Fremont's route map of 1845, the river's name is listed as "Goo-al-pah or Canadian River" from the Comanche and Kiowa name for the river (Kiowa gúlvàu, [ɡúᵈl.pʼɔː] 'red river'). In 1929, Muriel H. Wright wrote that the Canadian River was named about 1820 by French traders who noted another group of traders from Canada ...