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Kiamichi may refer to: * Kiamichi (horse) * Kiamichi, Oklahoma Other * Kiamichi Mountains * Kiamichi River * Kiamichi Railroad * Kiamichi Shale * Kiamichi shiner Kiamichi shiner (''Notropis ortenburgeri'') is a species of fish in the carp family, Cyprinidae. It is native to the United States, where it is known only from Arkansas and Oklahoma. This species is a member of genus '' Notropis'', fish known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiamichi (horse)
Kiamichi (foaled 23 August 2016) is a retired Group 1 winning Australian thoroughbred racehorse. Background Kiamichi was sired by Sidestep, who won the Pago Pago Stakes, the Royal Sovereign Stakes and Golden Slipper Stakes. Kiamichi proved to be Sidestep's first ever winning progeny. Racing career Kiamichi won her first ever race start at the odds of 13/2 when successful in a 2-year-old handicap race at Rosehill Gardens Racecourse. Her next victory came in the Magic Night Stakes at the odds of 20/1. She defied these odds to lead all the way and with that victory gained an automatic entry into the Golden Slipper Stakes The Golden Slipper Stakes is an Australian Turf Club Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race for two-year-old horses run over 1,200 metres on turf at set weights conditions, held at Rosehill Gardens Racecourse in Sydney, Australia. It is the premier two y ..., the richest two year old race in the world which is run the following week. Kiamichi was one of six runners ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiamichi, Oklahoma
Kiamichi is a former community in northern Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, United States, six miles east of Tuskahoma. A United States Post Office was established at Kiamichi, Indian Territory on September 27, 1887, and operated until September 14, 1962. The community and post office took their name from the nearby Kiamichi River. Prior to Oklahoma's statehood, Kiamichi was located in Wade County, Choctaw Nation.Morris, John W. ''Historical Atlas of Oklahoma'' (Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1986), plate 38. During the 1880s, the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway, more popularly known as the “Frisco”, built a line from north to south through the Choctaw Nation, connecting Fort Smith, Arkansas with Paris, Texas. The railroad paralleled the Kiamichi River throughout much of its route in present-day Pushmataha County. Train stations were established every few miles to aid in opening up the land and, more particularly, to serve as the locations of section houses. Supervisors fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiamichi Mountains
The Kiamichi Mountains (Choctaw: ''Nʋnih Chaha Kiamitia'') are a mountain range in southeastern Oklahoma. A subrange within the larger Ouachita Mountains that extend from Oklahoma to western Arkansas, the Kiamichi Mountains sit within Le Flore, Pushmataha, and McCurtain counties near the towns of Poteau and Albion. The foothills of the Kiamichi Mountains sit within Haskell County, Northern Latimer County, and Northern Pittsburg County. Its peaks, which line up south of the Kiamichi River, reach 2,500 feet in elevation. The range was the namesake of Kiamichi Country, the official tourism designation for southeastern Oklahoma, until the designation was changed to Choctaw Country. Black bear, coyote, bobcat, deer, cougar, minks, bats, bald eagles (sacred to the Choctaw), varieties of woodpeckers, doves, owls, road runners and 328 vertebrate species are native to this region. The Kiamichi Mountains are ancient. By projecting the existing mountains down to their subsurface ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiamichi River
The Kiamichi River is a river in southeastern Oklahoma, United States of America. A tributary of the Red River of the South, its headwaters rise on Pine Mountain in the Ouachita Mountains near the Arkansas border. From its source in Polk County, Arkansas, it flows approximately U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map , accessed June 3, 2011 to its confluence with the Red River at Hugo, Oklahoma. Name source The origin of the word Kiamichi is a matter of debate and may never be fully known. Most accounts say the word is a French word, which has been transliterated phonetically, for "horned screamer" or "noisy bird," a reference to woodpeckers or other birds living along the river's banks. The spelling of the modern word was not standardized until the twentieth century, making its origin more difficult to determine. The ''Antlers News'', a newspaper published in what was then Antlers, Indian Territory (now in Oklahoma) fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiamichi Railroad
The Kiamichi Railroad Company is a Class III short-line railroad headquartered in Hugo, Oklahoma. KRR operates two lines totaling which intersect in Hugo, as well as maintaining trackage rights on an additional of track. The main line (186 miles) runs from Hope, Arkansas (where it interchanges with Union Pacific Railroad) to Lakeside, Oklahoma, then along 20 miles of BNSF Railway trackage rights to a BNSF interchange point at Madill, Oklahoma. Along this line, KRR interchanges with Union Pacific at Durant, Oklahoma, with Kansas City Southern Railway at Ashdown, Arkansas, and with De Queen and Eastern Railroad via Texas, Oklahoma and Eastern Railroad at Valliant, Oklahoma. Additionally, it interchanges with the shortline WFEC Railroad Company at Valliant, and is the Primary Operating Railroad on that line. A 40-mile branch line runs from Antlers, Oklahoma to Paris, Texas. The line was a former main line of the Frisco railway; KRR started operations in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiamichi Shale
The Kiamichi Shale or Kiamichi Formation is a geologic formation in Arkansas and Texas. It preserves fossils A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved in ... dating back to the Cretaceous period. See also * List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Texas * Paleontology in Texas References * Cretaceous Arkansas Geologic formations of Texas Cretaceous System of North America {{Cretaceous-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
