Volume 8 , Issue 30

Oklahoma At A Glance...

Innovative Initiatives and Services Research Office - Oklahoma At A Glance -- "Sooner State." Admitted to the Union: November 16, l907, 46th state. State Capitol: Oklahoma City. Location: West South Central U.S. Bordered by six states - Texas, Kansas, New Mexico, Colorado, Missouri and Arkansas.

Area: 69,956 square miles (181,186 sq km) (U.S. Rank - 18) divided into 77 counties. This includes 68,656 square miles of land, 1,137 square miles of water. Oklahoma offers a variety of features, from grassland plains in the west to forests and mountains in the east. The above sea level elevation of Oklahoma's countryside slopes from a high of 4,973 feet at Black Mesa in Cimarron County (northwest) to a low of 287 feet near Idabel in McCurtain County (southeast). Check out this website Oklahoma At A Glance for more tidbits, such as the following: The name "Oklahoma" comes from the Choctaw words: "okla" meaning people and "humma" meaning red, so the state's name literally means "red people." On November 16, 1907, the Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory joined and became the 46th State. Oklahoma has more man-made lakes than any other state, with over one million surface acres of water. There are 2,000 more miles of shoreline than the Atlantic and Gulf coasts combined. Oklahoma is the third largest natural gas-producing state in the nation. Oklahoma has more astronauts than any other state. Oklahoma ranks second in the nation in the production of all wheat; fourth in cattle and calf production; fourth in the production of pecans; sixth in peanuts and eighth in peaches. Oklahoma had the world's first flowing commercial oil well. Oklahoma has the only capitol building in the world with an oil well under it. A gold rush existed in Oklahoma for nine years prior to statehood.....
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