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Lake Hefner. / 35.567820; -97.595740. Lake Hefner is a reservoir in northwestern Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It was built in the 1940s to expand the water supply for the city of Oklahoma City, [1] It is named after Robert A. Hefner, who served as mayor of Oklahoma City from April 11, 1939, to April 8, 1947, but was originally named the "Bluff ...
Lake Overholser is a reservoir within the city limits of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. [a] Lake Overholser is formed by Overholser Dam on the North Canadian River in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. [b] The lake is 2.9 miles (4.7 km) west of Bethany [2] and 4.4 mi (7.1 km) from Yukon. Lake Overholser is named after Ed Overholser who was the 16th Mayor of ...
Oklahoma has more than 200 lakes created by dams. All lakes listed are man-made. Oklahoma's only natural lakes are oxbow and playa lakes. Oklahoma has sixty-two oxbow lakes at least 10 acres in size. The largest, near the Red River in McCurtain County, is 272 acres. Playa lakes are found in saucer-shaped depressions in the high plains region.
Lake Stanley Draper is a reservoir in southeast Oklahoma City, United States. It is one of three municipal reservoirs in the city. [a] Principal construction on the reservoir occurred between 1962-1963. Upon completion it was named after the long-time director of the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce, Stanley Draper. [3]
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Lake Texoma is situated on the border between Oklahoma and Texas in the Oklahoma counties of Bryan, Marshall, Johnston, and Love, and the Texas counties of Grayson and Cooke. [6] It has a surface area of 89,000 acres (360 km 2 ), a conservation water volume of 2,525,568 acre⋅ft (3.115242 km 3 ), and a flood-control volume of 5,194,163 acre⋅ ...
For the past 44 years, Jimmy Hodges has enjoyed fresh water from the aquifer that runs under his rural Norman property just north of Lake Thunderbird, but now he’s wondering whether that will ...
In early 2013, Oklahoma City officials diverted 30,000 acre-ft of water from Canton Lake to Lake Hefner, to replenish the city's water supply. Later, spring rains replenished the level of that lake, which had to dump water into the North Canadian River to prevent the lake from overflowing. However, the effect was to leave Canton Lake 13 feet (4 ...