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Okmulgee County is a county in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census, the population was 36,706. The county seat is Okmulgee. Located within the Muscogee Nation Reservation, the county was created at statehood in 1907. The name Okmulgee is derived from the Hitchita word okimulgi, meaning "boiling waters".
Beggs is a city in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 1,179 as of the 2020 Census. Beggs was named for C.H. Beggs, vice president of the St. Louis-San Francisco (Frisco) Railway.
Dewar is a town in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 818 at the 2010 census, a decline of 11.0 percent from the figure of 919 recorded in 2000. Founded in 1909 by workers for the Missouri, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway (MO&G), it was named for William Peter Dewar, a railroad official. It incorporated in 1909.
Henryetta is a city in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 5,927 at the 2010 census, down 2.8 percent from the figure of 6,096 recorded in 2000.
Okmulgee is a city in, and the county seat of, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma. The name is from the Mvskoke word okimulgee, which means "boiling waters". The site was chosen because of the nearby rivers and springs. Okmulgee is 38 miles south of Tulsa and 13 miles north of Henryetta via US-75. Okmulgee is part of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area.
Schulter is a town in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 509 at the 2010 census, a decrease of 15.2 percent from the figure of 600 recorded in 2000.
U.S. Route 266 is a 43.09-mile (69.35 km), east–west U.S. Numbered Highway in Okmulgee, McIntosh, and Muskogee counties in Oklahoma, United States, that connects U.S. Route 62 U.S. Route 75 in Henryetta with U.S. Route 64 in Warner. The highway no longer meets the former route of its parent, U.S. Route 66, and is closely paralleled by Interstate 40 (I-40), which replaced US 266 as the major east–west highway east of Oklahoma City during the 1960s.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma.
Coalton is a populated place in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma. It is less than 11 miles south of the City of Okmulgee, and just east of US Route 62/US Route 75. In the Henryetta Coal Formation coal-mining region and an oil-producing area, the town in its heyday had its own newspaper, The Coalton Enterprise, and was along the route of the shortline Coalton Railway, later called the Okmulgee Northern Railway, which operated from Okmulgee south along the Deep Fork River carrying the coal out of the Coalton, Schulter and Dewar producing areas from 1916 to 1964. The Thirty-sixth annual report of the Department of Mines and Minerals from 1943 shows production by two coal companies in Coalton—Coalton Coal Company and Davis Coal Company—of almost 17,000 tons annually.
Kusa is a populated place located in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, about 4 miles east-northeast of Henryetta. Officially incorporated March 27th, 1916, and located in the Henryetta Coal Mining District, Kusa became a coal mining and lead smelting boomtown, complete with movie theaters, hotels, and banks. It even had its own newspaper, The Kusa Industrial, which published between 1914 and 1920. The population grew to a size of about 3,500, making it the largest town in the county at one point.
Spelter City is a populated place within the city of Henryetta, Oklahoma. It is located northeast of Henryetta’s town center, and west of Dewar, Oklahoma.
Natura is a populated place in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma. It is located about 10 miles north of the City of Okmulgee off State Highway 16, east of both the town of Beggs and US-75.
Bald Hill, or Baldhill, is a community in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma. It is located about 15 miles northeast of the City of Okmulgee, the county seat, off of Oklahoma State Highway 16. A post office was established here in 1896, but was closed in 1908. Nevertheless, the town was fueled by oil money, and had a population of 150 in 1923.
Dighton is a populated place in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma. It is about 7 miles east-northeast of Henryetta, Oklahoma, and is located south of US Route 266 on Bartlett Road.
Sunrise is an unincorporated place in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, at an elevation of 610 feet. It is located just to the east of Dewar.
Sunrise is an unincorporated place in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma, at an elevation of 830 feet. It is located about 17 miles southwest of the city of Okmulgee, Oklahoma, and directly south of Dripping Springs Lake.
Gulftown is a unincorporated community in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, at an elevation of 610 feet. It is located about two miles east of Dewar, Oklahoma. It is centered around the corner of Hackberry Road and Arbeka Road, being both south and east of US Route 266.
Butner is a populated place in Seminole County, Oklahoma at an elevation of 925 feet. It is about 6 miles south of Cromwell, Oklahoma on Oklahoma State Highway 56. It had a post office from June 1, 1903, to November 30, 1906. It was named for one Thomas Butner, an early settler.
Centerview is a populated place in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, at an elevation of 988 feet. It is located 4 miles south-southeast of Prague, Oklahoma, on US Route 377 at Moccasin Trail.
References
- ↑ "Wilson". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior . Retrieved July 1, 2021.
- ↑ "Henryetta, Oklahoma to Wilson, Oklahoma". Google Maps. Retrieved June 4, 2021.
- ↑ "Henryetta, Oklahoma to Wilson, Oklahoma". Google Maps. Retrieved June 4, 2021.
- ↑ "Wilson, Carter County, OK". Google Maps. Retrieved June 4, 2021.
- ↑ "Oklahoma's National Register of Historic Places (Wilson School)". Department of Geography at Oklahoma State University for the State Historic Preservation Office of Oklahoma. Retrieved June 4, 2021.
- ↑ "Homepage". Wilson Public Schools. Retrieved June 4, 2021.
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