Limestone Gap, Oklahoma

Last updated

Limestone Gap, Oklahoma
Unincorporated community
USA Oklahoma location map.svg
Red pog.svg
Limestone Gap, Oklahoma
Location within the state of Oklahoma
Usa edcp location map.svg
Red pog.svg
Limestone Gap, Oklahoma
Limestone Gap, Oklahoma (the United States)
Coordinates: 34°36′02″N95°58′17″W / 34.60056°N 95.97139°W / 34.60056; -95.97139
Country United States
State Oklahoma
County Atoka
Elevation
[1]
663 ft (202 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
GNIS feature ID1100581 [1]

Limestone Gap was an unincorporated community in Atoka County, Oklahoma, United States. The town is now abandoned. A type of limestone is named after the site on Limestone Creek. [2]

A post office was established at Limestone Gap, Indian Territory on March 29, 1875; it closed on February 28, 1922. From September 22, 1897 to July 15, 1901 the name of the post office was Limestone. The area is now known as Gap. [3]

At the time of its founding, Limestone Gap was located in Atoka County, Choctaw Nation. [4]

Gravestones in a cemetery there had deaths dating from 1886 to 1940. [5] Charles LeFlore, a deputy US marshal, who served as captain of the Indian Police, had a ranch there. [6]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Atoka County, Oklahoma</span> County in Oklahoma, United States

Atoka County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census, the population was 14,143. Its county seat is Atoka. The county was formed before statehood from Choctaw Lands, and its name honors a Choctaw Chief named Atoka. The county is part of Choctaw Nation reservation lands.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Atoka, Oklahoma</span> City in Oklahoma, United States

Atoka is a city in and the county seat of Atoka County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 3,107 at the 2010 census, an increase of 4.0 percent from the figure of 2,988 in 2000. As of 2021, the population has grown to 3,188.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stringtown, Oklahoma</span> Town in Oklahoma, United States

Stringtown is a town in Atoka County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 410 at the 2010 census, an increase of 3.5 percent from the figure of 396 recorded in 2000. It is the second largest town in Atoka County.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cameron, Oklahoma</span> Town in Oklahoma, United States

Cameron is a town in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, United States. It is part of the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 302 at the 2010 census, a decline of 3.2 percent from the figure of 312 recorded in 2000.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Shady Point, Oklahoma</span> Town in Oklahoma, United States

Shady Point, sometimes referred to as Shadypoint, is a town in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, United States. It is part of the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,026 at the 2010 census, a 21.0 percent increase over the figure of 848 recorded in 2000.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Talihina, Oklahoma</span> Town in Oklahoma, United States

Talihina is a town in LeFlore County, Oklahoma, United States, its name originating from two Choctaw words, tully and hena, meaning "iron road," a reference to the railroad around which the town was built. It is part of the Fort Smith, Arkansas–Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 925 at the time of the 2020 Census.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wister, Oklahoma</span> Town in Oklahoma, United States

Wister is a town in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, United States. It is part of the Fort Smith metropolitan area. The population was 1,102 at the 2010 census. Wister is named for Gutman G. Wister, an official with the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad.

Whitesboro is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 250 as of the 2010 census.

Lane is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Atoka County, Oklahoma, United States.

Monroe is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in far eastern Le Flore County, Oklahoma, United States.

Bentley is an unincorporated community in Atoka County, Oklahoma, United States. It lies east of the county seat of Atoka, off Highway 3.

Boggy Depot is a ghost town and Oklahoma State Park that was formerly a significant city in the Indian Territory. It grew as a vibrant and thriving town in present-day Atoka County, Oklahoma, United States, and became a major trading center on the Texas Road and the Butterfield Overland Mail route between Missouri and San Francisco. After the Civil War, when the MKT Railroad came through the area, it bypassed Boggy Depot and the town began a steady decline. It was soon replaced by Atoka as the chief city in the area. By the early 20th century, all that remained of the community was a sort of ghost town.

Wardville is a small unincorporated community in northern Atoka County, Oklahoma, United States, along State Highway 131, 14 miles northeast of Coalgate. The post office was established February 6, 1902 under the name Herbert, Indian Territory. Herbert was located in Atoka County, Choctaw Nation, a territorial-era entity which included portions of today's Atoka, Coal, Hughes and Pittsburg counties. The town was named after Herbert Ward, who was the youngest son of the towns first postmaster, Henry Pleasant Ward. The name of the town was changed to Wardville on July 18, 1907. Wardville was named for the before mentioned Henry Pleasant Ward, who served in the territorial House of Representatives and Senate and was an Atoka County judge. The Wardville Post Office closed in 2007.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Curtis Act of 1898</span>

The Curtis Act of 1898 was an amendment to the United States Dawes Act; it resulted in the break-up of tribal governments and communal lands in Indian Territory of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indian Territory: the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Muscogee (Creek), Cherokee, and Seminole. These tribes had been previously exempt from the 1887 General Allotment Act because of the terms of their treaties. In total, the tribes immediately lost control of about 90 million acres of their communal lands; they lost more in subsequent years.

Wesley is an unincorporated community in Atoka County, Oklahoma, United States. It is ten miles south of Kiowa.

Adel is an unincorporated community in northwestern Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, United States. It is 12 miles west of Clayton.

Darwin is an unincorporated community in western Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, United States, nine miles west of Antlers. It is approximately one-half mile east of the Atoka County border.

Honobia is an unincorporated community on the border between western LeFlore County and eastern Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, United States, 15 miles southeast of Talihina.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gilmore, Oklahoma</span> Unincorporated community in Oklahoma, United States

Gilmore is an unincorporated community in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, United States. The town, formerly incorporated, boasted a small post office, city hall, and Mayor Pratt McMillin, a rancher and oil distributor who died in April 2001, aged 84.

References

  1. 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Limestone Gap, Oklahoma
  2. ↑ "Limestone Gap (OKPAlg;0)". mrdata.usgs.gov. Retrieved May 21, 2019.
  3. ↑ Shirk, George H. Oklahoma Place Names (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965), pp. 125-126.
  4. ↑ Morris, John W. Historical Atlas of Oklahoma (Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1986), plate 38.
  5. ↑ "Limestone Gap Cemetery, Atoka County, Oklahoma". www.okcemeteries.net. Retrieved May 21, 2019.
  6. ↑ "Charles LeFlore - Fort Smith National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Retrieved May 21, 2019.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.