Pushmataha County is a county in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census,the population was 10,812. Its county seat is Antlers.
McCurtain County is in the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census,its population was 30,814. Its county seat is Idabel. It was formed at statehood from part of the earlier Choctaw Nation in Indian Territory. The name honors an influential Choctaw family who lived in the area. Green McCurtain was the last chief when Oklahoma became a state in 1907.
LeFlore County is a county along the eastern border of the U.S state of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census,the population was 48,129. Its county seat is Poteau. The county is part of the Fort Smith metropolitan area and the name honors a Choctaw family named LeFlore. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma is the federal district court with jurisdiction in LeFlore County.
Choctaw County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census,the population was 14,204. Its county seat is Hugo.
Eastampton Township is a township in Burlington County,in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census,the township's population was 6,191,an increase of 122 (+2.0%) from the 2010 census count of 6,069,which in turn reflected a decline of 133 (−2.1%) from the 6,202 counted in the 2000 census. The township,and all of Burlington County,is a part of the Philadelphia-Reading-Camden combined statistical area and the Delaware Valley.
Stigler is a city in and county seat of Haskell County,Oklahoma. The population was 2,685 at the time of the 2010 census,down from 2,731 recorded in 2000.
Broken Bow is a city in McCurtain County,Oklahoma,United States. The population was 4,120 at the 2010 census. It is named after Broken Bow,Nebraska,the former hometown of the city's founders,the Dierks brothers. Other Dierks-associated legacies in town include Dierks Elementary School,Dierks Street,and Dierks Train #227 which is preserved in Broken Bow.
Idabel is a city in and county seat of McCurtain County,Oklahoma,United States. The population was 7,010 at the 2010 census. It is in Oklahoma's southeast corner,a tourist area known as Choctaw Country.
The Oklahoma Republican Party is an Oklahoma political party affiliated with the Republican Party. Along with the Oklahoma Democratic Party,it is one of the two major parties in the state.
Choctaw Country is the Oklahoma Department of Tourism and Recreation's official tourism designation for Southeastern Oklahoma. The name was previously Kiamichi Country until changed in honor of the Choctaw Nation headquartered there. The current definition of Choctaw Country includes ten counties,being Coal,Atoka,Bryan,Choctaw,McCurtain,Pushmataha,Le Flore,Latimer,Haskell,and Pittsburg counties. The department created the term as one of six designated travel regions within the state. However,other definitions of Southeastern Oklahoma may include additional counties.
Sardis Lake is a reservoir in Pushmataha and Latimer counties in Oklahoma,USA. It was created about 1980 as the result of a dam constructed on Jackfork Creek,a tributary of the Kiamichi River,by the United States Corps of Engineers under contract to the state. It is named for the now-defunct town of Sardis,Oklahoma,which had to be abandoned before the area was submerged in the flooding of the lake.. The lake is located approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Clayton. It is part of the Kiamichi Basin.
Shane David Jett is an American politician from the state of Oklahoma,who is the state senator from Senate District 17,which includes northern Pottawatomie County and eastern Oklahoma County. He was a member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 2004 to 2010,representing House District 27. He also serves as chairman of the U.S. Treasury CDFI Fund Community Development Advisory Board.
The Kiamichi Mountains are a mountain range in southeastern Oklahoma. A subrange within the larger Ouachita Mountains that extend from Oklahoma to western Arkansas,the Kiamichi Mountains sit within Le Flore,Pushmataha and McCurtain counties near the towns of Poteau,Albion and Smithville. The foothills of the Kiamichi Mountains sit within Haskell County,Northern Latimer County and Northern Pittsburg County. Its peaks,which line up south of the Kiamichi River,reach 2,500 feet in elevation. The range was the namesake of Kiamichi Country,the official tourism designation for southeastern Oklahoma,until the designation was changed to Choctaw Country.
Idabel High School is high school located in Idabel,Oklahoma,which is in McCurtain County in the southeastern corner of the state. It is a part of Idabel Public Schools.
Chris Benge is an American Republican politician from the U.S. state of Oklahoma,who served as the 33rd Oklahoma Secretary of State from 2013 to 2016. Benge was appointed to serve as Secretary of State by Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin on November 8,2013.
Skye D. McNiel is an American politician who served in the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 2006 until 2013. McNiel represented the 29th district.
Eastern Oklahoma State College is a public community college in Wilburton,Oklahoma. It is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. The school has a branch campus in McAlester and teaching sites in Antlers and Idabel. The enrollment at 2000 was 1,918.
Wade County was a political subdivision of the Choctaw Nation of Indian Territory,prior to Oklahoma being admitted as a state. The county formed part of the Nation's Apukshunnubbee District,or First District,one of three administrative super-regions.
The Oklahoma Territorial Legislature was the legislative branch of the government of the Oklahoma Territory. It was organized as a bicameral legislature with a territorial council and a territorial house of representatives. They met for 120-day sessions in Guthrie,Oklahoma.
George Burns is an American politician from the U.S. state of Oklahoma. A member of the Republican Party,he currently serves in the Oklahoma Senate as the elected member from the 5th District which encompasses parts of Atoka,Choctaw,LeFlore,McCurtain,and Pushmataha Counties. He was first elected in the 2020 Oklahoma Senate election after winning the Republican primary on June 30,2020,and going on to win the general election on November 3,2020. His current term expires in 2025.
