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Le Flore 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.
Heavener is a city in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, United States. It is part of the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 3,414 at the 2010 census, an increase of 6.7 percent from 3,201 at the 2000 census. Heavener is notable for the Heavener Runestone just outside the city limits.
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.
Monroe is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in far eastern Le Flore County, Oklahoma, United States.
Fourche Maline is a 70.0-mile-long (112.7 km) tributary of the Poteau River in Oklahoma. The headwaters of Fourche Maline are in the Sans Bois Mountains in northwest Latimer County. It flows southwestward through Robbers Cave State Park, then southeastward past Wilburton before turning eastward until it reaches the Poteau River in Le Flore County. Fourche Maline's confluence with the Poteau River is now submerged in Lake Wister, about 6 miles (9.7 km) south of the confluence. The distance from origin to confluence is about 37 miles (60 km) Oklahoma Historian Muriel Wright translated the French name as meaning "treacherous fork" in English. During the days of the Indian Territory, Fourche Maline served as the boundary between Skullyville County and Sugar Loaf County, two of the constituent counties making up the Moshulatubbee District of the Choctaw Nation.
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.
Honobia is an unincorporated community on the border between western LeFlore County and eastern Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, United States, 15 miles southeast of Talihina.
Muse is an unincorporated community in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, United States. Muse is located along Oklahoma State Highway 63, 17 miles (27 km) southeast of Talihina.
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.
Big Cedar is an unincorporated community in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, United States.
Forrester is an unincorporated community in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, United States. A post office was established at Forrester on June 8, 1915; it closed on February 14, 1922.
Glendale is an unincorporated community in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, United States.
Hontubby is an unincorporated community in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, United States.
Lenox is an unincorporated community in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, United States.
Octavia is an unincorporated community on the Choctaw Reservation, in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, United States.
Petros is an unincorporated community in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, United States. It is located approximately two miles south of Heavener, Oklahoma and one mile north of the Poteau River.
Reichert is the name of two separate locations approximately one-half mile apart for the unincorporated community in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, United States.
Stapp is an unincorporated community in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, United States. It is located approximately eight miles south of Heavener on US Route 59.
Zoe is an unincorporated community in eastern Le Flore County, Oklahoma, United States.
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- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Loving, Oklahoma
- ↑ Shirk, George H. Oklahoma Place Names (Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1965), p. 129.
- ↑ Heavener Historical Society (2013). Heavener (LeFlore County) Oklahoma. Xlibris Corporation. p. 275. ISBN 9781479760558.
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