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Unincorporated communities in Oklahoma Unincorporated communities in Caddo County, Oklahoma {{Oklahoma-geo-stub
Broxton is an unincorporated community
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in Caddo County, Oklahoma
Oklahoma (; Choctaw language, Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the nor ...
, United States.
It was originally intended to form an actual town with 50 town lots.
Broxton had an independent school district until the 1990s, but it was consolidated with the Fort Cobb
Fort Cobb was a United States Army post established in what is now Caddo County, Oklahoma in 1859 to protect relocated Native Americans from raids by the Comanche, Kiowa, and Cheyenne. The fort was abandoned by Maj. William H. Emory at the beginn ...
school district, becoming Fort Cobb-Broxton Public Schools
The community of Pine Ridge was also served by the Broxton school district.
Broxton in fiction
Broxton and the surrounding regions have been an important setting of Marvel Comics' series ''Thor
Thor (; from non, Þórr ) is a prominent god in Germanic paganism. In Norse mythology, he is a hammer-wielding æsir, god associated with lightning, thunder, storms, sacred trees and groves in Germanic paganism and mythology, sacred groves ...
'' since the late 2000s. The Norse god Thor's home Asgard
In Nordic mythology, Asgard (Old Norse: ''Ásgarðr'' ; "enclosure of the Æsir") is a location associated with the gods. It appears in a multitude of Old Norse sagas and mythological texts. It is described as the fortified home of the Æsir ...
became a floating landmass outside of Broxton. Although the Asgardians were welcomed by the locals, in the 2011 miniseries '' Fear Itself'', Odin
Odin (; from non, Óðinn, ) is a widely revered Æsir, god in Germanic paganism. Norse mythology, the source of most surviving information about him, associates him with wisdom, healing, death, royalty, the gallows, knowledge, war, battle, v ...
, resentful of being made the recipient of humans' altruism, and sensing the return of an ancient enemy, leads his people back to Asgard's former location.
See also
*List of Oklahoma school districts by county
This list only includes the public school districts in the state of Oklahoma
Oklahoma (; Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a state in the South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and w ...
References
External links
Fort Cobb-Broxton school review at Greatschools.com
Unincorporated communities in Oklahoma Unincorporated communities in Caddo County, Oklahoma {{Oklahoma-geo-stub