The first community established at this site was named Metz, named for its first postmaster, Fred Metzner. The name was changed even before the railroad was built in 1889. Nowata served as a train stop for Native Americans from the East being resettled by the government. Some controversy exists about the meaning of the town name. The Lenape tribesmen who passed through named it "nuwita," meaning "friendly" or "welcome." In the Cherokee language, the town is called ??????? (A-ma-di-ka-ni-gunh-gunh, roughly), which means, "water is all gone," translating what it sounded like the word meant: No Water.
In 1889, the Kansas and Arkansas Valley Railway (later part of the Missouri Pacific Railway) built a line through Nowata. A post office was established in the town on November 8, 1889. Nowata was incorporated April 17, 1899. By 1900, Nowata had 498 residents.
Oil and gas were discovered nearby in 1904, stimulating the Nowata economy. The find established Nowata as "...a region (having) a reputation for being the world's largest shallow oil field." Some wells in this field have continued to produce into the twenty-first century.
A Federal court was established in 1904, and met on the third floor of the new building owned by the First National Bank of Nowata. The building housing the court burned down in 1909, destroying all records and forcing the court to move temporarily to another building. When Oklahoma became a state on November 16, 1907, Nowata County was created and named for the city, which was designated as the county seat. By that time, the city population had climbed to 2,233. A permanent Nowata County Courthouse was completed in 1912, and remains in use at present. It is the only local property listed on the National Record of Historic Places.
Nowata's peak population was 4,435 in 1920. The city became the southern terminus of the Union Electric Railway, which continued to serve the city until 1948. Newspapers included the Nowata Herald and the Nowata Advertiser. The town had 850 telephones by 1930. However, the 1930 census showed the first population decline in the city's history, to nearly the 1910 level.

Nowata

Glenpool

The town is named for&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spavinaw_Creek" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Spavinaw Creek</a>, a stream named by French traders and explorers who travelled here in the 18th century. According to historian Muriel Wright, the French name was a corrupted form of the French word&nbsp;ce'pee&nbsp;(meaning "young growth or shoots of wood"). plus the French adjective&nbsp;vineux&nbsp;(wine colored). This term referred to a description of the color of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quercus_marilandica" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">black jack</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quercus_stellata" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">post</a>&nbsp;and red oak trees which grow here in springtime.

Spavinaw

Disney is also known as "Disney Island" because it sits on an island at the southern shore of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Lake_o%27_the_Cherokees" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grand Lake o' the Cherokees</a>.&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_State_Highway_28" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Oklahoma State Highway 28</a>&nbsp;is the only road into and out of Disney. To get into Disney from the west, one must drive across the 1-mile long&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pensacola_Dam" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pensacola Dam</a>. To continue out of Disney, two more small dams with spillway gates must be crossed. The northern part of Disney is lake-front, the southern part bounded by a wide stream. The spillways from the two small dams join this stream.

Disney

A small community, named for the grove of locust trees where this battle took place, formed here, in the Cherokee Nation of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Territory" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Indian Territory</a>. A post office was established here on March 26, 1873. Jim Bryan moved the post office to his store in 1908, after Oklahoma became a state and Mayes County was established. In 1910, Louie Ross bought the Bryan store and moved it to his father's ranch house. The community of Locust Grove soon relocated closer to the store, and soon had a cemetery, a gristmill, two blacksmith shops, and a separate building to house the post office.

Locust Grove

For thousands of years&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">indigenous peoples</a>&nbsp;had lived along the rivers in this area, with varying cultures. By the time of European encounter, the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osage_Nation" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Osage</a>&nbsp;was a major tribe in the area. Their territory started at the Missouri River and extended west, including to parts of present-day Arkansas.

Salina

Wagoner is along the path of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Road" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Texas Road</a>&nbsp;cattle trail,&nbsp;and the later&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Highway" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jefferson Highway</a>&nbsp;of the early&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Trail_System" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">National Trail System</a>, both roughly along the route of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_69_in_Oklahoma" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">U.S. Route 69 through Oklahoma</a>&nbsp;today. The town began as a small community at the intersection of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri-Kansas-Texas" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Missouri-Kansas-Texas</a>&nbsp;(MKT) Railway and the Kansas and Arkansas Valley Railway (a branch of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_Pacific_Railway" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Missouri Pacific Railway</a>), when William McAnally, a foreman for the MKT built a small hotel at this isolated location in June 1887. By the next summer others had built two more hotels and two general stores. The town was named for railroad dispatcher Henry "Big Foot" Wagoner, who had reported the need for a railroad switch nearby to accommodate the shipment of logs and hay. The switch had been previously named "Wagoner's Switch." The switch soon relocated to the town and caused the development of a major cattle shipping business.

Wagoner

Chouteau, originally called Cody's Creek, became a stop on the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri%E2%80%93Kansas%E2%80%93Texas_Railroad" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Katy railroad</a>&nbsp;in 1871. It soon became a thriving cattle town.&nbsp;The name was changed to Chouteau after the creek that flows north of town that was named for French fur trader&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Pierre_Chouteau" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Auguste Pierre Chouteau</a>&nbsp;from the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chouteau" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Chouteau</a>&nbsp;family. Auguste created the first permanent white settlement in present-day&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salina,_Oklahoma" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Salina, Oklahoma</a>.

Chouteau

Inola is a town in Rogers County, Oklahoma, United States. It is included in the Tulsa Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,788 at the 2010 census, a 12.5 percent increase from 1,589 at the 2000 census. Inola is a Cherokee word meaning "Black Fox."

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