Every Lake
Oklahoma
A panhandle 166 miles long that belonged to no state at all until the survey caught up.
Oklahoma in relief
The land itself, cut in six steps of birch from the lowlands to the high ground — the cities starred, the summit and rise on the title block. No counties, no roads: just the shape of Oklahoma.
About Oklahoma
Oklahoma's outline is the product of pure line-drawing. The Red River curves along the southern border with Texas, the Arkansas and Canadian rivers cross the middle, and the panhandle runs 166 miles due west in a strip 34 miles wide — land left over when Texas and Kansas and New Mexico were bounded, so long unclaimed that people called it No Man's Land. The east is Ozark and Ouachita highland and hardwood forest; the west runs out to short-grass plains and the gypsum hills. The Wichita Mountains rise alone in the southwest. Seventy-seven counties.
Oklahoma entered on November 16, 1907 as the 46th state, formed by joining Oklahoma Territory with Indian Territory — the ground the eastern nations were removed to along the Trail of Tears — and 39 tribal nations are headquartered there today. Oklahoma City, settled in a single afternoon during the land run of April 22, 1889, took the capital from Guthrie in 1910. Route 66 crosses the whole state, and I-35, I-40 and I-44 meet in the capital.
- Six layers of birch — the land in elevation steps
- The summit and total rise on the title block
- The major cities, starred and named
- Title block with the admission date and capital
- A double rule engraved around the edge
- Every county line and the state border
- The interstates with their shields — 8 on this board
- The major cities, starred and named
- Title block with the admission date and capital
- A mile ruler engraved around the frame
