Antlers (Oklahoma)
Pushmataha County
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Antlers is a city and the county seat of Pushmataha County in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Covering an area of about seven square kilometers, nearly 2,500 people live.
Antlers is part of the socio-economic region Ark- La -Tex, which includes parts of four states Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas.
Geography
Antlers is located in the southeast of the State of Oklahoma in the southern United States, about 35 miles from the southern border of Texas and 110 km away from the eastern border with Arkansas. 25 km northwest of the city is the McGee Creek State Park, 20 kilometers south-east is approximately 54 square kilometers Hugo Lake. Are the Pine Creek Lake, the Pat Mayse Lake and the 360 -square-mile Lake Texoma In the wider area.
Nearby cities include rattan (17 km east), Hugo (23 km south), Boswell (31 m southwest ) and Sawyer (32 km southeast). Nearest large town with approximately 230,000 inhabitants is about 150 kilometers northeast of Fort Smith located in Arkansas, a similar distance from Antlers are also Oklahoma City ( northwest ) and Dallas ( south-west ).
History
Evidence exists to a prehistoric settlement in the present town area. At various points in the city arrowheads were found. Most of those were found on ridges and hills, which suggests that the original inhabitants have of healing reasons preferably higher ground settlements.
In the recent past, especially the Indians of the Caddo tribe lived in this area. They were the first who established permanent settlements and were active throughout the region as a hunter and fisherman. 1832 the area now Antlers was awarded by the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek Choctaw Indians.
1880, St. Louis was - San Francisco Railway from Fort Smith, Arkansas built to Paris in Texas. At intervals of a few miles breakpoints were built to open up the country and to give existing settlements connected to the surrounding area. In so-called Section Houses living area supervisors to monitor the progress of the construction and the operation of the railway and the right of way. Antlers was chosen because of the proximity to a source of fresh water as a station since regularly had to be refilled water into the steam locomotives at the time.
Its name from the city because of numerous deer antlers (English antler ), which were attached to trees. This was the one by hunters, other hunters over boasted, on the other hand, however, for marking out walkways.
1887 a post office was opened at this time there a few streets, the railroad served the local train six times a day. In the 1890s, when the government one hurried logging districts in the Five Civilized Tribes, was Antlers Record Town of District # 24, and thus given its own judicial system. To meet the needs of a Record Town righteous, a Court of the United States was then built.
In preparation for the sovereignty of Oklahoma Antlers in 1901 tested and recorded as 0,737 square miles of city. With the start of sovereignty on 16 November 1907, the Indian tribes lost their independence and Antlers was not further location of U.S. jurisdiction. The city was then only a short break (English resort town), because of their proximity to the Kiamichi Mountains many tourists came to fishing, hunting and recreation in the city. For several decades there was a constant population and employment in the city before it was in 1945 ravaged by a devastating tornado that destroyed many shops and homes in a wide swath. Nearly 70 residents died, 300 were injured. The tornado was classified according to later investigations as " F5" according to the Fujita scale.
In 1975, the cityscape changed appreciably since have now been erected outside the town center shopping areas like East Town Village, which were located closer to the homes of residents. This increasingly left the business center, which has since less people do their shopping there. After a series of arson fires in the 1970s and lost Antlers other shops in the Downtown, the picture changed also. It remained almost exclusively built of brick building.
Traffic
In the southwest of the city the Indian Nation Turnpike a 170 -kilometer toll expressway from Henryetta runs until near Hugo. In addition, proceeds from the northeast to the south of the city of the U.S. Highway 271, which begins in the north near Fort Smith and leading up to Tyler, Texas.
Demography
The 2010 Census showed a population of 2453 people, spread over 1068 households. The population density was 345 people per square kilometer. 78.1 % of the population were white, 14.9% Native American, 1.8% Black, 1.8% Hispanic or Latino and 0.1 % Asian. 0.3 % were from a different ethnicity, 4.7% had two or more ethnicities. For every 100 females 78 males. The average age was 38 years, the per capita income was nearly 11,300 U.S. dollars, which almost a third of the population lived below the poverty line.
Personalities
- Nicole DeHuff was an actress and was born in Antlers.