Broken Bow, Oklahoma Broken Bow, Oklahoma Broken Bow Municipal Building Broken Bow Municipal Building Location of Broken Bow, Oklahoma Location of Broken Bow, Oklahoma Website Broken Bow Chamber of Commerce A portion of downtown Broken Bow Broken Bow is a town/city in Mc - Curtain County, Oklahoma, United States.
It is titled after Broken Bow, Nebraska, the former hometown of the city's founders, the Dierks brothers. The territory that would turn into Broken Bow was owned by the Choctaw tribe before to being settled by non-Indians.
Growing around a lumber business started by two brothers, Broken Bow had a populace of 1,983, just a decade after its incorporation in 1911. The town/city lies inside the Little Dixie region of Oklahoma, an region originally settled largely by Southerners seeking a new start following the American Civil War.
Broken Bow is positioned at 34 1 47 N 94 44 16 W (34.029784, 94.737656). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 5.0 square miles (13 km2), of which 5.0 square miles (13.0 km2) is land, and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) (0.40%) is water.
The town/city of Broken Bow stands in a unique transition zone between the Red River watershed and the Ouachita Mountains.
While the Ouachita Mountains are sandstone ridges that are considered the roughest territory in Oklahoma, the Red River watershed is considered fertile. North of Broken Bow is Broken Bow Lake, created by the United States Army Corps of Engineers by damming the Mountain Fork River. The lake's creation forced Hochatown to relocate to its present-day location.
The Broken Bow Lake covers 14,220 acres (57.5 km2) and has 180 miles (290 km) of shoreline. The lake contains small islands, bass and is surrounded by pine trees. The town/city sits at the foothills of the Kiamichi Mountains, a subrange of the Ouachita Mountains. the Kiamichi Mountains sit inside Le Flore, Pushmataha, and Mc - Curtain counties near the suburbs of Poteau and Albion. The Kiamichi peaks line up south of the Kiamichi River and reach 2,500 feet (760 m) in elevation. The range is the namesake of Kiamichi Country, the official tourism designation for southeastern Oklahoma.
Climate data for Broken Bow, Oklahoma In recent years, Broken Bow has seen a tremendous economic boom through the evolution of its timber and tourism industries.
Broken Bow Coves In addition to being home of Broken Bow Lake, the town/city is a gateway for tourists visiting Beavers Bend Resort Park, Hochatown State Park, and Cedar Creek Golf Course at Beavers Bend.
Broken Bow is home to two exhibitions including Native American artifacts.
The Oklahoma State Department of Agriculture Forestry Division and United States Forest Service have a large existence in the region and are constantly surveying the region forests in order to prevent wildfires.
Pan Pacific operates a fiberboard plant on the west side of Broken Bow.
Huber Engineered Woods is the latest big player to enter the area, with a very large oriented strand board (OSB) plant, also on the west side of Broken Bow.
While Broken Bow's athletic history is limited primarily to high school football, it is recognized as one of the top high school programs in the state of Oklahoma.
The Broken Bow Savages presently hold four state football championships, ranking third in class AAAA in the state, behind the Clinton Red Tornadoes (14) and the Ada Cougars (19).
In addition to their four state championships, the Savages have various state title game appearances, the most recent of which came in 2004 when the Savages lost to Clinton.
Broken Bow High School integrated in 1964.
Le - Vell Hill and Larry Taylor were the first Black athletes to play for Broken Bow High School.
They promptly led Broken Bow to its first appearance in a football state championship game.
Broken Bow lost to the Clinton Red Tornadors in 1965.
Le - Vell Hill and Larry Taylor led Broken Bow to Its first State Track Championship in 1966.
The Little River Rumble (named for the river that flows between Broken Bow and Idabel) is played every year between these two schools and is one of the earliest rivalries in the state, dating back nearly an entire century.
Historic Broken Bow Memorial Stadium has served as the home of the Savages since it was constructed in the 1930s by the Works Progress Administration.
Built primarily of concrete and native rock, Memorial Stadium is one of the earliest and biggest high school football stadiums in the state of Oklahoma.
In "Broken Bow", the 2001 pilot episode of the tv series Star Trek: Enterprise, Broken Bow was the site of Human-Klingon first contact in 2151.
It is worth noting that the region depicted in this episode is flat farmland, whereas the region around Broken Bow in the present day is hilly and forested.
Because of this anomalous depiction, it was speculated that the locale in the Star Trek episode may have referred to Broken Bow, Oklahoma's namesake Broken Bow, Nebraska.
First, in "Broken Bow" itself, Captain Archer asks where Klaang came from, and an admiral replies "Oklahoma".
Second, dialog in the Enterprise episode "Detained", Captain Archer is asked what he might know about a place called Broken Bow in Oklahoma - seeming to settle which Broken Bow was referred to in the pilot episode.
Broken Bow and the encircling area also served as the locale for the episode "19:19" of the tv series Millennium, in which Frank Black led a search for a group of kids who had been abducted on their way to school.
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Broken Bow Chamber of Commerce Broken Bow information, photos and videos on Travel - OK.com Official travel and tourism website for the State of Oklahoma Broken Bow Public Schools Broken Bow Public Library Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture - Broken Bow Municipalities and communities of Mc - Curtain County, Oklahoma, United States
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