Oklahoma panhandle
The Oklahoma Panhandle (formerly called No Man's Land, the Public Land Strip, the Neutral Strip, or Cimarron Territory) is a salient in the extreme northwestern region of the U.S. state of Oklahoma, consisting of Cimarron County, Texas County and Beaver County, from west to east. As with other salients in the United States, its name comes from the similarity of its shape to the handle of a pan.
| Oklahoma Panhandle | |||||||||
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| Incorporated and unorganized territory of the United States | |||||||||
| 1850–1890 | |||||||||
The three counties of the Oklahoma Panhandle | |||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
| • Coordinates | 36°48′N 100°31′W | ||||||||
| Government | |||||||||
| • Type | Provisional, unelected, unrecognized | ||||||||
| President | |||||||||
• 1886–1887 | Owen G. Chase | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Republic of Texas founded; includes Panhandle area | March 2, 1836 | ||||||||
• Texas surrenders claim; Panhandle becomes "unattached" territory | 1850 | ||||||||
• First petition for territorial status sent to Congress | February 1887 | ||||||||
• Second petition for territorial status sent to Congress | December 1887 | ||||||||
• Attached to Oklahoma Territory | 1890 | ||||||||
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The three-county Oklahoma Panhandle region had a population of 28,729 at the 2020 U.S. Census. In the 2020 census, Texas County was the only county in Oklahoma to have a plurality of Hispanic residents. Hispanics made up 48.1 percent of the county's population.
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