Straight is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in
Texas County in the
Oklahoma Panhandle, United States.
Straight is located 13.69 miles west of
Hooker and 15 miles north of
Guymon.
Oklahoma State Highway 135 passes two miles to the west and the community of
Mouser
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* Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office, the official resident cat of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
* Mouser Electronics, an online distributor ...
is two miles to the east. Pony Creek (a tributary to the
Beaver River), flows past to the southwest of the community and
Wild Horse Lake is approximately two miles to the north.
The
Beaver, Meade and Englewood Railroad
The Beaver, Meade and Englewood Railroad (BM&E) extended from Beaver, Oklahoma to Keyes, Oklahoma in the Oklahoma Panhandle, about 105 miles. It was chartered in 1912, and abandoned in 1972.
History
The BM&E started as an effort by the citizens ...
built through the area in the 1929-1930 timeframe,
and Straight was purposely sited along its tracks.
That line was abandoned in 1972.
References
Unincorporated communities in Texas County, Oklahoma
Unincorporated communities in Oklahoma
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