Ardmore

Atoka

Patty Dingle
Pattydingle Home and Land Company
Phone: 580-889-7977
E-mail: realestate@pattydingle.com
Web Site
Atoka County, Southeastern Oklahoma. Ranches, farms, retirement acreages, homes, commercial. WELCOME HOME to O-k-l-a-h-o-m-a!!!

Bixby

Robin Rosencutter
McGraw Davisson Stewart, Realtors
Phone: 918-299-SOLD
E-mail: Robin@299-SOLD.com
Complete real estate service in Jenks & Metro Tulsa, OK.

Crescent

Ed Oswald
Ed Oswald Real Estate, Inc.
Phone: 405-969-2248
E-mail: oswaldre@aol.com
Contact us about properties in Logan, Kingfisher, Payne, and North Oklahoma County, ie Edmond, Piedmont, Deer Creek, Cashion Area.

Elk City

Misty Warnke
Feather Realty, inc.
Phone: 580-225-1534
E-mail: feather@itlnet.net
Burns Flat, Canute, Carter, Cheyenne, Clinton, Dill City, Elk City, Foss, Hammon, Butler, Sayre, Sweetwater, Berlin

Jenks

Robin Rosencutter
McGraw Davisson Stewart, Realtors
Phone: 918-299-SOLD
E-mail: Robin@299-SOLD.com
Complete real estate service in Jenks & Metro Tulsa, OK.

Lawton

Will Tomanek
LawtonOK-Realty.com
E-mail: webmaster@lawtonok-realty.com
Gateway to Lawton Fort Sill Oklahoma Real Estate. It contains "Featured Home Pages" of Lawton OK Realtors and Renters.

Madill

Brenda Courtney
Courtney Realty
Phone: 580-795-2608
E-mail: bcourt@trinex.net
South Central Oklahoma - Specializing in Farm & Ranches.

Mustang

Dodie Farve Reade
Coldwell Banker/Twin Rivers
Phone: 405-376-1119
E-mail: dfreade@aol.com
Serving Oklahoma City Metro, Mustang, El Reno, and Yukon.

Oklahoma City

Dodie Farve Reade
Coldwell Banker/Twin Rivers
Phone: 405-376-1119
E-mail: dfreade@aol.com
Serving Oklahoma City Metro, Mustang, El Reno, and Yukon.

Okmulgee

Darlene Scott
Nick Agency
Phone: 918-756-5100
E-mail: scottkids99@aol.com
Okmulgee, Morris.

Ringling

June Chism
Turner Land Company
Phone: 580-437-2252
E-mail: chism@wavelinx.net
Selling Oklahoma!..... specializing in Farm, Ranch, and Recreational Land sales in Jefferson, Love, Carter counties.

Sayre

Marlene G. Carriker
Sayre Realty
Phone: 580-928-2211
E-mail: sayrerealty@itlnet.net
Sayre and Erick Oklahoma and surrounding small communities.

Shawnee

Carolyn Harris
Prudential Carolyn Harris Realty
Phone: 800-575-8182
E-mail: carolyn@telepath.com
ROCK SOLID real estate service in Shawnee and surrounding areas. Member of Shawnee and Oklahoma City Multiple Listing Services.

Tishomingo

Mike Vandevier
Parks Realty
Phone: 580-371-3494
E-mail: mvandevier@simplynet.net
Specializing in farms and ranches. Native to Southern Oklahoma. We know ranches and the business of ranching in Southern Oklahoma !!!

Yukon

Dodie Farve Reade
Coldwell Banker/Twin Rivers
Phone: 405-376-1119
E-mail: dfreade@aol.com
Serving Oklahoma City Metro, Mustang, El Reno, and Yukon.

More land in Oklahoma is planted in wheat than in any other crop. Covering one-third of the state’s total cropland, wheat grows best on the prairies of the Great Plains and in the western part of the Central Lowland. It also grows in Southwestern Oklahoma, but cotton is more important in that area. The wheat grown is winter wheat, which is planted in the fall. It is used as pasturage for beef cattle during the winter and early spring and harvested in early summer. Both planting and harvesting are done by machine, the latter frequently by migrating “custom combiners” who follow the harvest from Texas to the Dakotas. The principal feature of the landscape in western Oklahoma is the grain elevator. These tall buildings, most located on railroad sidings, are used for the storage and transfer of wheat from farm to market. They are found not only in the cities, towns, and hamlets, but also in the open country.

Crossing the northern part of Oklahoma is the 200-day growing season line, which is the northern limit for cotton production. The principal cotton-growing areas are in southwestern Oklahoma, along the Red River. Much cotton in the southwestern counties is grown on irrigated land. Ditches carry water for 25 to 30 mi south of Altus Reservoir. In Harmon and Greer counties, water is pumped from deep wells. Most of the work from planting to harvesting is done with machines.

There are several areas of specialty crops in the state. Greenhouse and nursery products, grown in east central Oklahoma, are the state’s largest specialty crops. The Ozark Plateaus are noted for strawberries. The lower Arkansas Valley is important in the production of vegetables such as spinach, beans, and sweet corn. The western half of the state is a major producer of mung beans, used for bean sprouts and cattle feed. The Rush Springs area in south central Oklahoma grows watermelons and cantaloupes. Native pecans grow well in central and east central Oklahoma. Stratford is known for its peaches.

In all parts of Oklahoma, however, there has been a major increase in cattle raising in recent decades. The acreage in hay, both cultivated and native, has increased. The high volume of grain sorghum production in the state also reflects the emphasis on cattle raising. There are many herds of registered beef animals, including Hereford and Aberdeen Angus. Farmers and ranchers ship excellent breeding stock to all parts of the nation. The Ouachita Mountains, Osage Hills, Arbuckle Mountains, Antelope Hills, and western Cimarron County are all areas that derive most of their income from the sale of beef animals. Dairy herds are raised near the larger towns and cities. The state depends on livestock products for 79 percent of its agricultural sales.

Both coniferous and deciduous trees grow in the state. Pine, oak, and hickory are most common. Shortleaf pine is the chief wood of commercial importance. Pines dominate the slopes and ridges of the Ouachitas, while hardwoods are found chiefly on the lower slopes and in the valleys. In the swamps and river bottoms, which are subject to floods, the cypress is common. Large sawmills are located in Wright City, Broken Bow, Idabel, Stilwell, and Spavinaw. More than 200 mills were active in the state in the early 1990s, mostly in the eastern section. A large wallboard plant, which uses the chips and sawdust of the Wright City sawmill, is located near Broken Bow. About 2 million acres of pine forests are used in commercial lumber and paper production. Outside the Ouachita and Ozark regions, lumbering is of local importance only.

Oklahoma has large reserves of coal, petroleum, and natural gas, the three chief mineral fuels. Oklahoma is in the Mid-Continent Petroleum Field and ranks fifth in the nation in the production of petroleum and third in production of natural gas. The state’s first commercial oil well was drilled near Bartlesville in 1891. Although in the 1990s production had declined from earlier levels, oil wells scattered throughout the state continued to produce, pumping 70.6 million barrels of oil in 1999. Petroleum and gas are found in almost every county, but the areas around Tulsa, Seminole, Oklahoma City, Healdton, Kingfisher, and Osage County have the best pools. The Hugoton gas field, which extends from Kansas across the Oklahoma Panhandle into Texas, is the leading area for natural gas in the United States. Oklahoma also produces helium, which is a by-product of natural gas.

Much of eastern Oklahoma adjacent to the Ozark and Ouachita regions is underlain with high-grade bituminous coal. Coal was first mined on a large scale near McAlester in 1872, and production increased until the 1920s, when petroleum began to assume importance as a fuel. Coal is mined by both the shaft and the strip methods.

Crushed stone, cement, sand and gravel, gypsum, clay, feldspar, iodine, lime, pumice, and tripoli, which is used as an abrasive, are all mined in Oklahoma. Springs and salt plains in Harmon and Woods counties yield salt for household use. Glass sand suitable for the making of all types of glassware except optics is mined from open pits near Mill Creek and Roff.

Zinc and lead, found in Ottawa County, were formerly the chief metallic minerals of Oklahoma. Production of these metals decreased greatly after reaching a high point in the early 1920s, finally ceasing in 1970. At one time more than one-half of the world’s zinc supply was mined in Oklahoma. A copper deposit in Jackson County was mined from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s.

Oklahoma is more a producer of raw materials than of manufactured goods. Most crops and refined minerals are shipped to other states to be made into finished products, although manufacturing has grown steadily in importance. Factories in Oklahoma vary in size. Most are small, but some industries, such as aviation, electronics, tire manufacturing, and oil refining, may have 500 or more employees. Manufacturing of some type is found in every county, but only Oklahoma and Tulsa counties rank as nationally important centers.

Oklahoma’s leading industries are the production of electronics and electrical equipment, especially apparatus for communications; the manufacture of industrial machinery, such as equipment used in construction or oil extraction, internal combustion engines, and pumps; the fabrication of metal products, including creating parts for the oil industry such as pipes and valves; the production of transportation equipment, especially motor vehicles and automobile parts; food processing; and the manufacture of rubber goods, chiefly tires.

The largest factories in Oklahoma are connected with transportation. A major auto assembly plant is in Oklahoma City. Airplane assembly and repair work are done in plants at Midwest City, Bethany, Tulsa, and Broken Arrow.

Food-processing plants are common throughout the state. Flour mills are located in Blackwell, Shawnee, and Enid. Canneries for packing or freezing strawberries and vegetables are found in Stilwell, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Fort Gibson, and other eastern Oklahoma towns and cities. Creameries, ice cream plants, and bakeries are common in the metropolitan areas. Meatpacking is an important industry in Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Ada, Durant, Enid, Clinton, and Lawton. Some small plants manufacture special products, such as peanut butter, potato chips, honey products, coffee, and spices.

Local industries process many products from Oklahoma’s crops. Brushes and brooms are made from broomcorn. Cottonseed-oil mills are located in Altus, Clinton, Chickasha, Anadarko, and other cities in the cotton-growing areas of the state. Feed mills and gristmills process barley, corn, and other grains into feed.

Petroleum refining was a major industry of Oklahoma in the 1990s, with operations in Tulsa, Ponca City, Ardmore, and Oklahoma City. Plants in Southard and Duke make wallboard from gypsum, and two large mills near Pryor make the paper for gypsum wallboard. Glass is manufactured in Edmond, Okmulgee, Henryetta, Tulsa, and Sapulpa. Pottery is made in factories in Noble, Oklahoma City, and Sapulpa. Cement plants are located in Tulsa, Pryor, and Muskogee.

A variety of new industries have come into Oklahoma in recent years. Rubber tires are made at Lawton, Ada, Muskogee, Ardmore, and Oklahoma City. Clothing factories have been established at Coalgate, Seminole, Ada, Checotah, Woodward, Hominy, Pawnee, Ardmore, Miami, Oklahoma City, and Tulsa. Furniture is made in factories in Atoka, Guthrie, and other centers. Valliant, Jenks, Muskogee, and Pryor are sites of paper mills.

There are many large dams to utilize the water of the Arkansas and Red river systems as a source of energy for electricity. Among Oklahoma’s largest hydroelectric dams are Tenkiller Dam on the Illinois River, Denison Dam on the Red River, Keystone Dam on the Arkansas River, and Pensacola Dam on the Grand River. Most hydroelectric dams have been built since the 1940s.

In central and western Oklahoma, the drier parts of the state, most power is generated by steam plants using coal or gas. The water supply in the lakes is not dependable enough for the generation of hydroelectric power. The large western lakes serve as sources of water supply for cities, for irrigation, and for recreation.

In the state as a whole, 94 percent of electricity is generated in plants burning coal or natural gas, and the remainder comes from hydroelectric facilities.

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