 | The Pensacola Dam is the largest multiple arch dam in the world, spanning 5,145 feet with 51 arches. The dam has 21 floodgates on the main spillway and 21 on the east spillways.
Rising 150 feet above the river bed, Pensacola Dam holds the waters that form Grand Lake's 1,300 miles of scenic shoreline, surrounding approximately 47,000 surface acres of water. With a surface elevation of 742 feet above sea level.
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| The name "Oklahoma" comes from the Choctaw words: "okla" meaning people and "humma" meaning red, so the state's name literally means "red people."
Oklahoma has the largest American Indian population of any state. Many of the 252,420 American Indians living in Oklahoma today are descendants from the original 67 tribes inhabiting Indian Territory.
Thirty-nine of the American Indian tribes currently living in Oklahoma are headquartered in the state.
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| Oklahoma:
The highest point in the state is Black Mesa in Cimarron County
(4,973 feet); the lowest is due east of Idabel in McCurtain County
(287 feet).
Oklahoma has more man-made lakes than any other state, with over
one million surface acres of water and 2,000 more miles of shoreline
than the Atlantic and Gulf coasts combined.
Oklahoma's four mountain ranges include the Ouachitas, Arbuckles,
Wichitas and the Kiamichis.
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| Oklahoma is bordered by six states: Texas to the south and west,
Arkansas and Missouri to the east, Kansas to the north and Colorado
and New Mexico at the tip of the northwestern Oklahoma panhandle.
Oklahoma is comprised of 77 counties.
Oklahoma has a land area of 69,919 square miles and ranks 18 in the
nation in size.
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| How Monkey Island Got Its Name!
Many different stories have been told about how Monkey Island got its name. The following is the true story:
During the time the lake basin was being cleared, in 1938, Mr. and Mrs. Gove Bunch, and son Billie G., and Mr. and Mrs. Everett Lee, and son Bill, went to Tulsa to the Mohawk Park Zoo for a Sunday afternoon outing. In the park there was a small island with a moat around it, where the monkeys were kept. They all had fun feeding the monkeys.
Soon after this, a Tulsa World newspaper reporter came through Bernice and was visiting with Mr. Bunch about the changes the lake would make. Since this area was to be surrounded by water, Mr. Bunch jokingly remarked, "Over there will be Monkey Island, where the monkeys will be."
In a few days this report was printed in the Tulsa World; the name stuck, and the island has been known as Monkey Island ever since.
There have never been any real monkeys on Monkey Island!
Source: Delaware County Historical Society - Jay Oklahoma
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