Color digital elevation map of southwestern Oklahoma; the Wichita Mountains are highlighted
Country
United States
State
Oklahoma
Geology
Orogeny
Ouachita orogeny
Age of rock
Cambrian, Pennsylvanian, Permian
Type of rock
granite, rhyolite, gabbro, conglomerate
The Wichita Mountains are located in the southwestern portion of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.[1] It is the principal relief system in the Southern Oklahoma Aulacogen, being the result of a failed continental rift. The mountains are a northwest-southeast trending series of rocky promontories, many capped by 500 million-year old granite. These were exposed and rounded by weathering during the Pennsylvanian and Permian Periods. The eastern end of the mountains offers 1,000 feet (305 m) of topographic relief in a region otherwise dominated by gently rolling grasslands.
The mountains are home to numerous working ranches and quarry operations, the state reformatory, recreational homes and campsites, and scenic parklands. Fort Sill, home of the U.S. Army Field Artillery School, occupies a large portion of the southeastern end of the mountains.
^U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Wichita Mountains
The WichitaMountains are located in the southwestern portion of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. It is the principal relief system in the Southern Oklahoma...
WichitaMountains Wildlife Refuge, located in southwestern Oklahoma near Lawton, has protected unique wildlife habitats since 1901 and is the oldest managed...
County) Wichita Falls, Texas, a city Wichita County, Texas WichitaMountainsWichita-class cruiser, a heavy cruiser class of the US Navy USS Wichita (CA-45)...
The WichitaMountains pillsnail (Euchemotrema wichitorum) is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family...
The Wichita people, or Kitikiti'sh, are a confederation of Southern Plains Native American tribes. Historically they spoke the Wichita language and Kichai...
commercially. The Arbuckle Mountains are the oldest known formations in the United States between the Appalachian and Rocky Mountains. They contain a core of...
mountain overlooks scenic Lake Altus-Lugert. Quartz Mountain is one of the westernmost peaks in the WichitaMountains. In simplest terms, the Wichita...
northeastern Oklahoma Elk Mountain, in the eastern WichitaMountains, southwestern Oklahoma WichitaMountains Narrows The Ouachita Mountains cover much of southeastern...
state has four primary mountain ranges: the Arbuckle Mountains, the WichitaMountains, the Ozark Mountains and the Ouachita Mountains. Part of the U.S. Interior...
Ann Parker and Nocona's first child was Quanah Parker, born in the WichitaMountains of southwestern Oklahoma. In a letter to rancher Charles Goodnight...
Missouri and Red rivers, the Ozarks to the east and the foothills of the WichitaMountains to the south. They depended on nomadic buffalo hunting and agriculture...
Park. Also, in 1907, the New York Zoological Park sent 15 bison to WichitaMountains Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma forming the nucleus of a herd that now...
Forest Service. They collected a small herd of stock to breed on the WichitaMountains Wildlife Refuge in Lawton, Oklahoma. The breed also received significant...
Landing Marina Cache Creek (Oklahoma) Mount Scott (Oklahoma) WichitaMountainsWichitaMountains Wildlife Refuge Oklahoma Water Resource Board. "Hydrographical...
limited by the Canadian and Red Rivers, rise the subdued forms of the WichitaMountains in Oklahoma, the westernmost member of the Ouachita system. The term...
Zodletone Mountain (with spelling variant Zadletone Mountain, occasionally also called Mount Zodletone) is a mountain in the United States. It is located...
Nevada West Mountains, Idaho White Mountains, Alaska White Mountains, Arizona White Mountains, California WichitaMountains, Oklahoma Wolf Mountains, Montana...
live out his days. He died in July 1879. Guipago is buried in the WichitaMountains in an unknown location, in the Mount Scott area.[full citation needed]...
National Grassland, the Taovayan Valley, the WichitaMountains, the Antelope Hills, and the Quartz Mountains. Southwestern Oklahoma has a humid subtropical...
Mexico, western Oklahoma including the Oklahoma Panhandle and the WichitaMountains, southeastern Colorado and southwestern Kansas. Before the Comanche...
nearly evergreen tree. Its native range includes the Quartz Mountains and WichitaMountains in southwestern Oklahoma, through Texas, to the Mexican states...
Global Information
