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State Highway 98 (Oklahoma)
State Highway 98, also abbreviated to SH-98 or OK-98, is a highway maintained by the U.S. state of Oklahoma. It travels for through McCurtain County It has one unsigned spur route, SH-98S. SH-98 began as a short spur from US-70 to Wright City in 1953. In 1958, it was extended to its present extent, although the routing north of US-70 differed from that of the present day. By 1982, the highway had taken on its current routing and termini. Route description SH-98 begins at the eastern SH-37 about north of the Red River (the Texas state line) and west of Idabel. The highway eventually heads northwest, but soon swings back around to head northward. The road continues due north on an arrow-straight course through the level terrain of the Whitegrass Flats. SH-98 intersects US-70 between Valliant and Millerton. Highway 98 curves to the northeast, north of US-70. It then returns to a due north course, crossing the Little River. About north of US-70, it makes a sharp turn to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oklahoma Department Of Transportation
The Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) is an government agency, agency of the government of Oklahoma responsible for the construction and maintenance of the state's transportation infrastructure. Under the leadership of the Oklahoma Secretary of Transportation, Oklahoma secretary of transportation and ODOT executive director, the department maintains public infrastructure that includes highways and state-owned railroads and administers programs for county roads, city streets, public transit, passenger rail, waterways and active transportation. Along with the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority, the department is the primary infrastructure construction and maintenance agency of the State.Okla. Stat. tit. 47, § 2-106.2A ODOT is overseen by the Oklahoma Transportation Commission, composed of nine members appointed by the governor of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Senate and Oklahoma House of Representatives. Tim Gatz, a professional landscape architect with a bachelor's degree in landscape ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red River Of The South
The Red River, or sometimes the Red River of the South, is a major river in the Southern United States. It was named for its reddish water color from passing through red-bed country in its watershed. It is one of several rivers with that name. Although once a tributary of the Mississippi River, the Red River is now a tributary of the Atchafalaya River, a distributary of the Mississippi that flows separately into the Gulf of Mexico. This confluence is connected to the Mississippi River by the Old River Control Structure. The south bank of the Red River formed part of the US–Mexico border from the Adams–Onís Treaty (in force 1821) until the Texas Annexation and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The Red River is the second-largest river basin in the southern Great Plains. It rises in two branches in the Texas Panhandle and flows east, where it serves as the border between the states of Texas and Oklahoma. It forms a short border between Texas and Arkansas before entering Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unsigned (road)
Road sign along Utah State Route 259">SR 259, a short connector; however, the sign instead shows Utah State Route 24">SR 24, the highway at the other end of the connector. An unsigned highway is a highway that has been assigned a route number, but does not bear road markings that would conventionally be used to identify the route with that number. Highways are left unsigned for a variety of reasons, and examples are found throughout the world. Depending on the policy of the agency that maintains the highway, and the reason for not signing the route, the route may instead be signed a different designation from its actual number, with small inventory markers for internal use, or with nothing at all. Background There are a variety of cases where roads are officially designated, but have no markings to show that designation. Many highway maintenance agencies assign some form of number to all highways, bridges, and other features they maintain for tracking and inventory purposes. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oklahoma Department Of Highways
The Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) is an agency of the government of Oklahoma responsible for the construction and maintenance of the state's transportation infrastructure. Under the leadership of the Oklahoma secretary of transportation and ODOT executive director, the department maintains public infrastructure that includes highways and state-owned railroads and administers programs for county roads, city streets, public transit, passenger rail, waterways and active transportation. Along with the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority, the department is the primary infrastructure construction and maintenance agency of the State.Okla. Stat. tit. 47, § 2-106.2A ODOT is overseen by the Oklahoma Transportation Commission, composed of nine members appointed by the governor of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Senate and Oklahoma House of Representatives. Tim Gatz, a professional landscape architect with a bachelor's degree in landscape architecture, serves as the secretary of transportation a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Highway 3 (Oklahoma)
State Highway 3, also abbreviated as SH-3 or OK-3, is a highway maintained by the United States, U.S. state of Oklahoma. Traveling diagonally through Oklahoma, from the Panhandle to the far southeastern corner of the state, SH-3 is the longest state highway in the Oklahoma road system, at a total length of via SH-3E (#SH-3E/3W split, see below). Route description In the northwest Highway 3 begins at the Colorado state line north of Boise City, Oklahoma. At this terminus, it is Concurrency (road), concurrent with U.S. Highway 287 (Oklahoma), US-287/U.S. Highway 385 (Oklahoma), US-385. It remains concurrent with the two U.S. Routes until reaching Boise City, where it encounters a traffic circle which contains five other highways. After the circle, U.S. Highway 385 (Oklahoma), US-385 splits off, and SH-3 overlaps US-287, U.S. Highway 56 (Oklahoma), US-56, U.S. Highway 64 (Oklahoma), US-64, and U.S. Highway 412 (Oklahoma), US-412, though US-56 and US-287 both split off within the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little River (Red River)
The Little River is a tributary of the Red River of the South, Red River, with a total length of , within the Choctaw Nation, Choctaw Indian Reservation in southeastern Oklahoma and in southwestern Arkansas in the United States. Via the Red, it is part of the drainage basin, watershed of the Mississippi River. Six large reservoirs impound the Little River and its tributaries. The drainage basin of the river totals , in Oklahoma and in Arkansas. The Little River and its upper tributaries are popular for recreational canoeing and kayaking. Course The highest sources of the Little River are at an elevation of more than in southwestern Le Flore County, Oklahoma in the Ouachita Mountains. It initially flows westward into Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, Pushmataha County, then south into McCurtain County, Oklahoma, McCurtain County where it turns to flow southeast, past Wright City, Oklahoma, Wright City and through the Little River National Wildlife Refuge and a portion of the O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valliant, Oklahoma
Valliant is a town in McCurtain County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 754 at the 2010 census. History Valliant was founded June 2, 1902, in what was the Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, and named for Frank W. Valliant, a chief divisional engineer for the Arkansas and Choctaw Railway then being constructed in the area.Smith, Joy McDougal and Sharon McKeever. "Valiant." ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture''. Accessed October 11, 2018. At the time of its founding, Valliant was located in Towson County, a part of the |
Idabel, Oklahoma
Idabel is a city in and county seat of McCurtain County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 7,010 at the 2010 census. It is located in the southeast corner of Oklahoma, a tourist area known as Choctaw Country. History Idabel was established in 1902 by the Arkansas and Choctaw Railway (later part of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway, the line now being operated by the Kiamichi Railroad). The city was first named Purnell, after Isaac Purnell, a railroad official. When postal officials rejected that designation, the name was changed to Mitchell, honoring another railroad company officer. Postal officials also rejected because another post office of that name existed elsewhere in the territory. They named the post office Bokhoma (a Choctaw word meaning Red River), which opened December 15, 1902. Railroad officials then chose the name Idabel, a compound of the names of Isaac Purnell's two daughters, Ida and Bell. The post office was then renamed Idabel.Coleman, Louis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Texas
Texas (, ; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by both List of U.S. states and territories by area, area (after Alaska) and List of U.S. states and territories by population, population (after California). Texas shares borders with the states of Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the west, and the Mexico, Mexican States of Mexico, states of Chihuahua (state), Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to the south and southwest; and has a coastline with the Gulf of Mexico to the southeast. Houston is the List of cities in Texas by population, most populous city in Texas and the List of United States cities by population, fourth-largest in the U.S., while San Antonio is the second most pop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Highway 37 (Oklahoma)
State Highway 37 (abbreviated SH-37) is a designation for two separate highways in the state of Oklahoma. The northern section runs between Hinton and Moore in central Oklahoma, while the southern section runs from the Texas state line at the Red River to Idabel, in southeastern Oklahoma. The northern section of SH-37 runs from US-281 in Hinton to Sunnylane Road (former SH-77H) in Moore. The southern section of SH-37 is long. Route descriptions Central Oklahoma The SH-37 in Central Oklahoma begins at US-281 in Hinton, Caddo County. It runs in a zigzag pattern for to the southeast before crossing into Canadian County. The Canadian County section runs in an irregular path to the southeast for , before re-entering Caddo County. Back in Caddo County, SH-37 runs three miles (5 km) south to the town of Cogar, where it joins SH-152, and turns to the east. This concurrency goes two miles (3 km) before entering Grady County. In Grady County, SH-37/SH-152 goes to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albion, Texas
Albion is an unincorporated community in Red River County, Texas, United States. It is located along the Red River where SH 37 crosses it. References Unincorporated communities in Red River County, Texas Unincorporated communities in Texas {{RedRiverCountyTX-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wright City, Oklahoma
Wright City is a town in McCurtain County, Oklahoma, McCurtain County, Oklahoma, United States, along the Little River (Red River), Little River. The population was 762 at the 2010 census, a decline of slightly more than 10 percent from the figure of 848 recorded in United States Census, 2000, 2000. Wright City hosts one of the oldest continuous rodeos in Oklahoma, known as Little Cheyenne, held each July 1 through 4. In 1933 a few local cowboys started it as a rodeo, barbecue, and dance. Since 1935, the American Legion, William Wright Post Number 74, has sponsored the event. Wright City was once home to a Weyerhaeuser plant; it closed permanently in mid March 2009 due to the slowed lumber industry. The company sold its cardboard product line to International Paper Corporation. Weyerhaeuser was Wright City's economic power engine, and its closing affected 165 employees. History Founding Wright City, formerly known as Bismark and Wright, is located northeast of Valliant and north ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
