Volume 6 , Issue 10

1939 Largest Lake - Cimarron County, OK...

One of our readers last weekend wrote in to see if we could possibly show a picture of the O. W. Tucker's 1939 largest lake - Cimarron County - Oklahoma Panhandle. He was wondering if we were holding out on y'all - if it still existed today and how large it is/was. We let our fingers/paws do the walking over to our favorite topographical map server - TerraServer.com - Did a search for "Cimarron County Oklahoma" and found the Cimarron County Map that was taken around 1995. It shows a possible old lake bed that sets just west of Keyes, Oklahoma a few miles, on the south side of highway 56 as you travel between Elkhart, Kansas and Boise City, Oklahoma. Highways 171 and 64 Junctions are just a few miles from there.

BUT... Alas! We do not know for sure if this is a link to the whereabouts of O. W. Tucker's largest lake of the Dust Bowl mentioned in the 1939 northwest oklahoma newspaper. Here's another link to the Terra Server Map showing another view of a lake bed in Cimarron County, in the farthest west county of the Oklahoma Panhandle. Is this the same lake as the one reported back in 1939 on O. W. Tucker's land (the largest lake during the depression that they used to irrigate alfalfa fields)? Does anyone out there have any other clues that could help us determine if this 1939 largest lake in Oklahoma still exists? Where it is/was? We would love to hear from Y'all! We may have to take a drive out there some day soon! I'll be the one honkin' at you on the road.... NOT Oakie!

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