Neutral Strip
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Beaver City 36°48′N 100°31′W / 36.800°N 100.517°WCoordinates: 36°48′N 100°31′W / 36.800°N 100.517°W |
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| Government | Provisional, unelected, unrecognized | |||||
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| • | 1886–1887 | Owen G. Chase | ||||
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| • | Texas Republic founded; includes Panhandle area | March 2, 1836 | ||||
| • | Texas Republic surrenders claim; Panhandle becomes "unattached" territory | 1850 | ||||
| • | First petition for territorial status sent to Congress | February 1887 | ||||
| • | Second petition for territorial status sent to Congress | December 1887 | ||||
| • | Attached to Oklahoma Territory | 1890 | ||||
The Oklahoma Panhandle is the extreme northwestern region of the state of Oklahoma, consisting of Cimarron County, Texas County, and Beaver County, from west to east. As with other salients in the United States, its name comes from the similarity of its shape to the handle of a cooking pan.
The three-county Oklahoma Panhandle region had a population of 28,751 at the 2010 census, representing 0.77% of the state's population. This is a decrease in total population of 1.2%, a loss of 361 people, from the census of 2000.
The Panhandle, 166 miles (267 km) long and 34 miles (55 km) wide, is bordered by Kansas and Colorado at 37°N on the north, New Mexico at 103°W on the west, Texas at 36.5°N on the south, and the remainder of Oklahoma at 100°W on the east. The largest town in the region is Guymon, which is the county seat of Texas County. Black Mesa, the highest point in Oklahoma at 4,973 feet (1,516 m), is located in Cimarron County. The Panhandle occupies nearly all of the true High Plains within the state of Oklahoma, being the only part of the state lying west of the 100th meridian, which generally marks the westernmost extent of moist air from the Gulf of Mexico. The North Canadian River is named Beaver River or Beaver Creek on its course through the Panhandle. Its land area is 5,686 square miles (14,730 km2), which is larger than that of the state of Connecticut, and comprises 8.28 percent of Oklahoma's land area.
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