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Mineral, Oklahoma
Mineral, originally called Mineral City, was a settlement founded in what was then No Man’s Land, but which is now western Cimarron County in the Panhandle of the State of Oklahoma. History Around 1886, coal was discovered in the area, and two mining companies laid out Mineral City to house workers. It briefly became a boomtown, with 2 or 3 general stores, a saloon, a blacksmith shop, and a population of about 100. The town had the only post office in the Cimarron County vicinity prior to 1890. In 1890, when the Panhandle became Beaver County of Oklahoma Territory, the town was one of only two communities in the area worth enumerating, having a population of 98. (Carrizo, just west over the line in New Mexico Territory, was the other, with 83 people; that settlement was later relocated a bit to the east into Oklahoma and renamed Kenton.) Unfortunately, the coal gave out quickly, and within a few years the settlement was practically a ghost town. In 1895 what was left o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cimarron County, Oklahoma
Cimarron County is the westernmost County (United States), county in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Its county seat is Boise City, Oklahoma, Boise City. As of the 2010 United States Census, 2020 census, its population was 2,296, making it the least-populous county in Oklahoma; and indeed, throughout most of its history, it has had both the smallest population and the lowest population density of any county in Oklahoma. Located in the Oklahoma Panhandle, Cimarron County contains the only community in the state (Kenton, Oklahoma, Kenton) that observes the Mountain Time Zone. Black Mesa (Oklahoma, Colorado, New Mexico), Black Mesa, the highest point in the state, is in the northwest corner of the county. The Cimarron County community of Regnier, Oklahoma, Regnier has the distinction of being the driest spot in Oklahoma ranked by lowest annual average precipitation, at just 15.62 inches; at the same time, Boise City is the snowiest location in Oklahoma ranked by highest annual aver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Of Oklahoma
Oklahoma ( ; Choctaw: , ) is a landlocked state in the South Central region of the United States. It borders Texas to the south and west, Kansas to the north, Missouri to the northeast, Arkansas to the east, New Mexico to the west, and Colorado to the northwest. Partially in the western extreme of the Upland South, it is the 20th-most extensive and the 28th-most populous of the 50 United States. Its residents are known as Oklahomans and its capital and largest city is Oklahoma City. The state's name is derived from the Choctaw words , 'people' and , which translates as 'red'. Oklahoma is also known informally by its nickname, "The Sooner State", in reference to the Sooners, American settlers who staked their claims in formerly American Indian-owned lands until the Indian Appropriations Act of 1889 authorized the Land Rush of 1889 opening the land to settlement. With ancient mountain ranges, prairie, mesas, and eastern forests, most of Oklahoma lies in the Great Plains ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oklahoma Territory
The Territory of Oklahoma was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from May 2, 1890, until November 16, 1907, when it was joined with the Indian Territory under a new constitution and admitted to the Union as the state of Oklahoma. The 1890 Oklahoma Organic Act organized the western half of Indian Territory and a strip of country north of Texas known as No Man's Land (now the Oklahoma Panhandle) into Oklahoma Territory. Native American reservations in the new territory were then opened to settlement in a series of land runs in 1890, 1891, and 1893. Seven counties were defined upon the creation of the territory. They were originally designated by number and eventually became Logan, Cleveland, Oklahoma, Canadian, Kingfisher, Payne, and Beaver counties. The Land Run of 1893 led to the addition of Kay, Grant, Woods, Garfield, Noble, and Pawnee counties. In 1896, the Oklahoma Territory acquired Greer County, Texas when the Supreme Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenton, Oklahoma
Kenton is a census-designated place (CDP) in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, Cimarron County, Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the community had 31 residents. Kenton, which lies in the Cimarron River (Arkansas River), Cimarron River valley, is just south of Black Mesa (Oklahoma, Colorado, New Mexico), Black Mesa, the highest point in Oklahoma, and serves as an unofficial staging point for visitors to the site.Tom Lewis and Sara Jane Richter. "Black Mesa." ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture''. Accessed August 20, 2013. The east end of the mesa features dinosaur tracks which have been preserved in a sandstone strata next to North Carrizo Creek, Carrizo Creek. Black Mesa State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Carrizo Creek
South Carrizo Creek forms either just west of the Oklahoma line in New Mexico, or east inside Oklahoma to the northwest of Wheeless, Oklahoma. It is intermittent. It travels generally northeast through Black Mesa State Park where it is impounded to form Lake Carl Etling, before being joined by Willow Creek and continuing northeast to flow into the Cimarron River. It is not to be confused with the Carrizo Creek that forms in New Mexico west-southwest of Grenville and flows generally east-southeast into Texas to become a tributary of Rita Blanca Creek around Dalhart, nor with the Carrizo Creek in Arizona, which forms somewhere north of Cibecue before flowing generally southeast, being joined by Corduroy Creek around the town of Carrizo, and continuing generally south to join the Salt River. It is also not to be confused with East, West, or North Carrizo Creek, none of which directly join South Carrizo Creek. East Carrizo Creek forms in Colorado north of Mt. Carrizo and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Fe Trail
The Santa Fe Trail was a 19th-century route through central North America that connected Franklin, Missouri, with Santa Fe, New Mexico. Pioneered in 1821 by William Becknell, who departed from the Boonslick region along the Missouri River, the trail served as a vital commercial highway until 1880, when the railroad arrived in Santa Fe. Santa Fe was near the end of El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro which carried trade from Mexico City. The trail was later incorporated into parts of the National Old Trails Road and U.S. Route 66. The route skirted the northern edge and crossed the north-western corner of Comancheria, the territory of the Comanche. Realizing the value, they demanded compensation for granting passage to the trail. American traders envisioned them as another market. Comanche raiding farther south in Mexico isolated New Mexico, making it more dependent on the American trade. They raided to gain a steady supply of horses to sell. By the 1840s, trail traffic through the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wheeless, Oklahoma
Wheeless is an unincorporated community in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, United States. The post office was established February 12, 1907, and discontinued September 27, 1963. Nearby are the ruins of Camp Nichols, a military encampment on the Santa Fe Trail, which is a National Historic Landmark. Wheeless is on E0200 Road; the New Mexico border is approximately six miles west. The closest highway access points are east and then north to Oklahoma State Highway 325 at the curve where that road turns north after running west from Boise City, or west and then south to the very short New Mexico State Road 410, which links to New Mexico State Road 406 State Road 406 (NM 406) is a state highway in Union County, New Mexico, United States. NM 406's southern terminus is at U.S. Route 56/ 64/412 near Clayton, and it's northern terminus is at NM 456 near the Oklahoma border. Th ..., about two miles to the west. The Texhomex bench mark, being the meeting point of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Seat
A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or parish (administrative division), civil parish. The term is in use in five countries: Canada, China, Hungary, Romania, and the United States. An equivalent term, shire town, is used in the U.S. state of Vermont and in several other English-speaking jurisdictions. Canada In Canada, the Provinces and territories of Canada, provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia have counties as an administrative division of government below the provincial level, and thus county seats. In the provinces of Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, the term "shire town" is used in place of county seat. China County seats in China are the administrative centers of the counties in the China, People's Republic of China. They have existed since the Warring States period and were set up nationwide by the Qin dynasty. The number of counties in China proper g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boise City, Oklahoma
Boise City ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Cimarron County, in the Panhandle of Oklahoma, United States. Its population was 1,166 at the 2020 census, a decline of 7.9% from 1,266 in 2010. History Boise City was founded in 1908 by developers J. E. Stanley, A. J. Kline, and W. T. Douglas (all doing business as the Southwestern Immigration and Development Company of Guthrie, Oklahoma), who published and distributed brochures promoting the town as an elegant, tree-lined city with paved streets, numerous businesses, railroad service, and an artesian well. They sold 3,000 lots to buyers who discovered, on their arrival, that none of the information in the brochure was true. In addition to using false publicity, the three men did not have title to the lots they sold. Stanley and Kline were convicted of mail fraud and sent to Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary. Stanley and Kline served two-year terms in the penitentiary. Douglas died of tuberculosis b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doby, Oklahoma
Doby was a town that existed in the Oklahoma Panhandle in Cimarron County Cimarron County is the westernmost County (United States), county in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Its county seat is Boise City, Oklahoma, Boise City. As of the 2010 United States Census, 2020 census, its population was 2,296, making it the le ... around the time of Oklahoma statehood in 1907. Some sources indicate it was four or five miles northwest of Boise City, but a 1911 Rand McNally map places it several miles to the southwest of that town. Its post office was established February 5, 1908. It was substantial enough that, in 1908, it ran against Boise City and four other locations in an attempt to become the permanent County Seat for Cimarron County. It ended up in a run-off with Boise City for the privilege—which it lost. It was also substantial enough to have a printing company. The Cimarron Courier, the newspaper of Boise City and the wider county, was actually published by The Courier P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
