Pauls Valley, Oklahoma Pauls Valley, Oklahoma Location of Pauls Valley, Oklahoma Location of Pauls Valley, Oklahoma Pauls Valley is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Garvin County, Oklahoma, United States.
The populace was 6,187 at the 2010 census, a diminish of 1.1 percent from 6,256 at the 2000 census. It was settled by and titled for Smith Paul, a North Carolina native who married a Chickasaw woman and became a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation before the Civil War.
The region that eventually became the town/city of Pauls Valley was one of the earliest European-American settlements in what was then known as Indian Territory.
Smith Paul, born in 1809 in New Bern, North Carolina, identified the fertile bottom territory which is now Pauls Valley while a member of a wagon train traveling to California.
Paul described the territory as "a section where the bottom territory was rich and blue stem grass interval so high that a man on horseback was almost hidden in its foliage." When the Chickasaw citizens were relocated to Indian Territory that year, Smith Paul moved with them and married Ela-Teecha, a Chickasaw woman.
In 1847, the Pauls established a plantation on the rich Garvin County bottom land, where Rush Creek joined the Washita River, which became known to locals as "Smith Paul's Valley". Mail to the Pauls was often addressed to "Smith Paul's Large Farm".
By 1871, postal service was established in the area, although the postal service was designated "Paul's Valley, Arkansas", because the Indian Territory was being administered out of Arkansas at that time. Santa Fe Railway) shortened the name to "Paul's Valley" when it assembled a track through the improve in 1887, completing its connection between Kansas and the Gulf Coast.
The barns brought expansion and prosperity to Smith Paul's Valley.
The Pauls Valley town site was laid out in 1892, though the plat was not allowed by the Dawes Commission until 1903.
In 1909, the streets were bricked. Today, Pauls Valley has more brick streets 17,986 square yards (15,039 m2) than any other town in the United States. Adrienne Grimmet, who was then president of the Pauls Valley Historical Society, started a campaign to save the old structure.
In 1999, Amtrak began its Heartland Flyer service between Oklahoma City and Dallas, passing through Pauls Valley.
The new Pauls Valley station has a climate-controlled waiting region and restrooms, but is unstaffed, having no ticketing or baggage handling facilities.
The Oklahoma Cartoonists Hall of Fame, positioned in the Toy and Action Figure Museum, was opened in Pauls Valley in 2005. Pauls Valley is positioned east of the center of Garvin County at 34 44 9 N 97 13 25 W (34.735831, -97.223503). It is 57 miles (92 km) south of Oklahoma City, at the junction of Interstate 35 and State Highway 19. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 8.7 square miles (22.6 km2), of which 8.6 square miles (22.2 km2) is territory and 0.2 square miles (0.4 km2), or 1.90%, is water. The Washita River, a tributary of the Red River, flows through the town/city south of the downtown area.
The Pauls Valley City Lake, positioned about 3 miles (5 km) northeast of the center of town, offers recreational opportunities, including fishing, camping, swimming, Jet Skiing, hunting, and a pavilion for groups to use.
Agricultural is the major economic activeness in the Pauls Valley area.
Pauls Valley Public Schools provides basic education through high school for Pauls Valley. Pauls Valley High School Pauls Valley Junior High School The Pauls Valley station is one of only five Amtrak passenger stations still operating in Oklahoma.
Pauls Valley Municipal Airport (PVJ) is a city-owned, general aviation facility positioned 2 miles (3 km) south of the Pauls Valley company district. The street address is 500 Airport Road.
Clifford Cleveland Brooks (1886 1944), Georgia native, sold real estate in Pauls Valley c.
Roger Eason (1918 1998), National Football League player, born in Pauls Valley Jennings Poindexter (1910 1983), Major League Baseball pitcher, born in Pauls Valley Rushing (born 1983), National Football League player, born in Pauls Valley Jean Shepard (1913 2016), singer and songwriter, born in Pauls Valley (birth name Ollie Imogene Shepherd) Spradlin (1920 2011), movie and TV actor, born in Pauls Valley Census:Viewer:Pauls Valley, Oklahoma Population.
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