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Oklahoma panhandle. / 36.800°N 100.517°W / 36.800; -100.517. The Oklahoma Panhandle (formerly called No Man's Land, the Public Land Strip, the Neutral Strip, or Cimarron Territory) is a salient in the extreme northwestern region of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. It consists of, from west to east, Cimarron County, Texas County and Beaver ...
The Texas panhandle is a region of the U.S. state of Texas consisting of the northernmost 26 counties in the state. The panhandle is a square-shaped area bordered by New Mexico to the west and Oklahoma to the north and east. It is adjacent to the Oklahoma Panhandle, land which Texas previously claimed. The 1820 Missouri Compromise declared no ...
The Geography of Oklahoma encompasses terrain and ecosystems ranging from arid plains to subtropical forests and mountains. Oklahoma contains 10 distinct ecological regions, more per square mile than in any other state by a wide margin. [1] It is situated in the Great Plains and U.S. Interior Highlands region near the geographical center of the ...
Oklahoma (/ ˌ oʊ k l ə ˈ h oʊ m ə / ⓘ OHK-lə-HOH-mə; [6] Choctaw: Oklahumma, pronounced) [7] is a state in the South Central region of the United States. [8] 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.
281,000 cu ft/s (8,000 m 3 /s) The Canadian River is the longest tributary of the Arkansas River in the United States. It is about 1,026 miles (1,651 km) long, starting in Colorado and traveling through New Mexico, the Texas Panhandle, and Oklahoma. The drainage area is about 47,700 square miles (124,000 km 2 ). [ 1]
Texas was annexed as a state into the United States in 1845, and the Mexican–American War followed from 1846 to 1848. The war was concluded by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo , in which the U.S. received the lands contentiously claimed from Mexico by Texas (including the Oklahoma Panhandle ), as well as lands west of the Rio Grande to the ...
John Hall Stephens, a Texas congressman and advocate of Oklahoma statehood: 50.19 44,014: 877 sq mi (2,271 km 2) Texas County: 139: Guymon: 1907: Seventh County (entire panhandle until 1907) [13] The neighboring U.S. state of Texas: 10.00 20,371: 2,037 sq mi (5,276 km 2) Tillman County: 141: Frederick: 1907: Comanche County, Oklahoma [71]
Rita Blanca National Grassland is a National Grassland on the Great Plains near the community of Texline in northwest Dallam County, Texas, in the Texas Panhandle, and in southern Cimarron County, Oklahoma, in the western Oklahoma Panhandle. The principal city in the area is Dalhart, Texas, which houses the XIT Museum .