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GENERAL INFORMATION
• Oklahoma's current population is 3,450,654 ( 2000, estimated).
• Oklahoma is comprised of 77 counties.
• Oklahoma covers 69,919 square miles.
• Guthrie was the first state capitol of Oklahoma.
• Oklahoma's state capitol is the only one in the world with an oil well drilled beneath it.
• Oklahoma is the third largest gas producing state in the nation.
• The Nellie Johnstone oil well located at Johnston Park in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, had the first flowing commercial well in the world.
• The world's largest air material center is Tinker Air Force Base in Midwest City.
• Fort Sill at Lawton is the Army's principal artillery school.
• Pawhuska, Oklahoma, had the first Boy Scout troop in America (1909).
• Sylvan Goldman of Oklahoma created the first rolling supermarket cart.
• The first parking meter was created in Oklahoma and installed in Oklahoma City in 1935.
• Oklahoma has 43 colleges and universities.
• Oklahoma is the winter quarters for more circuses than any other state.
• Oklahoma's average annual temperature is a pleasant 60.5 degrees.
GEOGRAPHY
• Oklahoma has four mountain ranges: Ouachitas, Arbuckles, Wichitas, and the Ozarks
• Forests cover 24 percent of Oklahoma
• The Poteau River is the only river in Oklahoma that flows north.
• The world's largest single deposit of pure alabaster may be found in the Alabaster caverns near Freedom, Oklahoma.
• Oklahoma is linked to the world's waters by the McClellan-Kerr Navigation system--flowing on the Arkansas River through Arkansas to the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico.
• The highest elevation in the state is Black Mesa, 4,978 feet, in far northwestern Oklahoma.
• The lowest elevation in the state is in the southeast corner near Idabel, at 324 feet
• Oklahoma has the distinction of having the highest hill in the world, Mount Cavanal,
• Oklahoma's current population is 3,450,654 ( 2000, estimated).
• Oklahoma is comprised of 77 counties.
• Oklahoma covers 69,919 square miles.
• Guthrie was the first state capitol of Oklahoma.
• Oklahoma's state capitol is the only one in the world with an oil well drilled beneath it.
• Oklahoma is the third largest gas producing state in the nation.
• The Nellie Johnstone oil well located at Johnston Park in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, had the first flowing commercial well in the world.
• The world's largest air material center is Tinker Air Force Base in Midwest City.
• Fort Sill at Lawton is the Army's principal artillery school.
• Pawhuska, Oklahoma, had the first Boy Scout troop in America (1909).
• Sylvan Goldman of Oklahoma created the first rolling supermarket cart.
• The first parking meter was created in Oklahoma and installed in Oklahoma City in 1935.
• Oklahoma has 43 colleges and universities.
• Oklahoma is the winter quarters for more circuses than any other state.
• Oklahoma's average annual temperature is a pleasant 60.5 degrees.
GEOGRAPHY
• Oklahoma has four mountain ranges: Ouachitas, Arbuckles, Wichitas, and the Ozarks
• Forests cover 24 percent of Oklahoma
• The Poteau River is the only river in Oklahoma that flows north.
• The world's largest single deposit of pure alabaster may be found in the Alabaster caverns near Freedom, Oklahoma.
• Oklahoma is linked to the world's waters by the McClellan-Kerr Navigation system--flowing on the Arkansas River through Arkansas to the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico.
• The highest elevation in the state is Black Mesa, 4,978 feet, in far northwestern Oklahoma.
• The lowest elevation in the state is in the southeast corner near Idabel, at 324 feet
• Oklahoma has the distinction of having the highest hill in the world, Mount Cavanal,