Elm Fork Red River

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The Elm Fork Red River is a river in Oklahoma. It flows into the North Fork of the Red River near Quartz Mountain State Park, about ten miles east of Mangum, Oklahoma.

Oklahoma is a state in the South Central region of the United States, bordered by Kansas on the north, Missouri on the northeast, Arkansas on the east, Texas on the south and west, New Mexico on the west, and Colorado on the northwest. It is the 20th-most extensive and the 28th-most populous of the fifty United States. The state's name is derived from the Choctaw words okla and humma, meaning "red people". It is also known informally by its nickname, "The Sooner State", in reference to the non-Native settlers who staked their claims on land before the official opening date of lands in the western Oklahoma Territory or before the Indian Appropriations Act of 1889, which dramatically increased European-American settlement in the eastern Indian Territory. Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory were merged into the State of Oklahoma when it became the 46th state to enter the union on November 16, 1907. Its residents are known as Oklahomans, and its capital and largest city is Oklahoma City.

Mangum is a city in and county seat of Greer County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 3,010 at the 2010 census. It was originally part of Old Greer County in the Texas panhandle. The community was named for A. S. Mangum, who owned the land on which the town was founded in 1882. It became part of Oklahoma Territory in 1896, and thus part of the state of Oklahoma on November 16, 1907.

External links

United States Geological Survey. Source of Elm Fork Red (accessed January 9, 2007).
United States Geological Survey. Mouth of Elm Fork Red River (accessed January 9, 2007).
Oklahoma Digital Maps: Digital Collections of Oklahoma and Indian Territory
U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Elm Fork Red River

Coordinates: 34°52′17″N99°19′01″W / 34.87139°N 99.31694°W / 34.87139; -99.31694 (Elm Fork Red River)

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