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The Ponca City region of Oklahoma is part of "Tornado Alley". Tornadoes are most common in April, May, and June. Ponca City faces very hot and humid summers with temperatures frequently rising to over 100 °F (38 °C), as well as severe storms. During the winters, Ponca City has mild to cold temperatures with occasional snowstorms and ice.
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Jonathan Lighter, the editor of the Historical Dictionary of American Slang, connects the terms Mason–Dixon line and Dixie via a children's game played in nineteenth century New York City. [11] Dixie may have originally referred to currency issued first by the Citizens State Bank in the French Quarter of New Orleans and then by other banks in ...
Dixie is a census-designated place (CDP) in Walla Walla County, Washington, United States. The population was 197 at the 2010 census. A post office called Dixie has ...
The Downtown Ponca City Historic District is a 73 acres (30 ha) area of historic buildings in Ponca City, Oklahoma. The historic district is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. [1] The listing included 109 contributing buildings and 33 non-contributing ones. [2]
Visitors may explore the caverns in a 45-minute guided tour. The caverns were found by two farm boys in 1920 after their dog, Dixie, fell through a hole that led to the caves. They decided to name the caverns after their dog in honor of his discovery. Guided tours of the caverns were begun in 1923.
Ponca City High School is a public high school that serves approximately 1,500 students in grades 9–12, located in Ponca City, Oklahoma. [4] The current main principal is Thad Dilbeck. [5] The school's boundary includes Ponca City and White Eagle. [6] The school operates on a semester schedule.
The Ponca signed their last treaty with the US in 1865. [11] In the 1868 US-Sioux Treaty of Fort Laramie [12] the US mistakenly included all Ponca lands in the Great Sioux Reservation. Conflict between the Ponca and the Sioux/Lakota, who now claimed the land as their own by US law, forced the US to remove the Ponca from their own ancestral lands.