Muskogee County, Oklahoma
Muskogee County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2010 census, the population was 70,990. The county seat is Muskogee. The county and city were named for the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.multi-modal local hub for the
transport
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railroad
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, and
barge
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s on the
Arkansas River
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. It is one of the farthest inland ports in the
United States
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that remains ice-free year-round and can access the
Arkansas River
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, Grand River and Verdigris River in Oklahoma, at River Mile 393.8 of the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System.
Port traffic
In 2011, the port served 550 barges carrying over of cargo. The largest inbound commodities were nepheline syenite, clay, steel, fertilizer, coke and sand."Port of Muskogee: Port Commerce." World Port Commerce. 2017 Accessed May 31, 2017. Other inbound cargoes brought to the Port of Muskogee by barge in 2011 included molasses,
rebar
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, iron ore, feed products, cookie meal, asphalt, glass cullet, and granite fines. In 2011, cargoes leaving the Port of Muskogee by barge included coke, fly ash, and steel.
The port reported that in 2014, it had handled 3,564 railcars carrying of cargo"Port of Muskogee Railcar Tonnage." Muskogee, Oklahoma. 2017. Accessed June 14, 2017. and 459 barges carrying . "Port of Muskogee Barge Tonnage." Muskogee, Oklahoma. 2017. Accessed June 14, 2017. For 2015, it reported serving 2,210 railcars hauling of cargo and 452 barges with totalling cargo.
Muskogee City-County Port Authority
The governments of Muskogee County and the City of Muskogee, Oklahoma cooperated in the formation of the Muskogee City-County Port Authority, whose principal responsibility is to promote the construction of the inland port's facilities and to recruit cargo-handling, warehousing, and transportation industries to use them. One of its earliest achievements was to break ground for the $2.5 million Muskogee Industrial Park. The port opened for business on December 31, 1970, and the first commercial barge docked there on January 3, 1971.
Facilities
The port includes a concrete wharf that is long and twenty mooring dolphins that line another of the waterfront.
Port of Muskogee Railroad
The Port of Muskogee Railroad (reporting mark: PMR) provides daily service over 5.5 miles of tracks to port industries for Class 1 interchange, cargo transfer and storage. Both the
Union Pacific Railroad
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and
BNSF Railway
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