Shady Point (Oklahoma)

Le Flore County

40-66550

Shady Point ( Shady Point) is a town in Le Flore County in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. In the census of 2010 Shady Point had 1,026 inhabitants.

The name was of workers who laid railroad tracks and paused at this point under the shady trees, creates.

Geography

The city is located on U.S. Highway 271 and has an area of about 6.6 square kilometers. The nearest major town of Fort Smith, Arkansas is about 30 miles as the crow flies. Shady Point is located approximately 25 kilometers southeast of the Robert S. Kerr reservoir, a popular recreational area, including water sports, hiking and fishing and hunting activities offers.

History

1891 was established a post office of the first settlers on the site of the present town, and built there a part of the railway line in the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad. After 1894, the place was called " Shady Point ," which was in the field of Choctawindianer. Of the local timber industry, agriculture and mining developed. From 1900, another railway line that transported coal, built. Their operation but was reinstated in 1926, as the demand for coal declined in the region.

1978 a mine was opened nearby. However, when two workers died in the mine, it was already closed again in 1980. In 1991, the Applied Energy Services Corporation took a coal power plant in operation, which burned more than half of the subsidized coal in Oklahoma soon.

Demographic data

The 2000 census (United States Census 2000) showed a total population of 848 people, divided into 344 households. The proportion of Aboriginal was 9%. Almost 30 % of the population had not yet reached at this time 18 years of age.