Frogville, Oklahoma
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| Coordinates: 33°53′51″N 95°18′46″W / 33.89750°N 95.31278°WCoordinates: 33°53′51″N 95°18′46″W / 33.89750°N 95.31278°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Oklahoma |
| County | Choctaw |
| Time zone | Central (CST) (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| ZIP codes | 74743 |
Interesting Facts
Frogville is a small unincorporated community in Choctaw County, Oklahoma, United States. The post office was established on October 29, 1897, and closed on August 15, 1933. Frogville was named for the abundance of frogs in the area said to be so large they ate young ducks(Shirk).
Frogville
Frogville, Oklahoma is located near the Red River which is a runoff from the Mississippi River that separates Oklahoma and Texas (Atlas). Frogville is on the South East portion of Choctaw County right on the outskirts of Hugo 74743, Sawyer 74756, Fort Towson 74735, and Grant 74743 Oklahoma (Google Maps). Choctaw County received its name from the dense Indian population that once inhibited the land (Lambert). Frogville Oklahoma is located in the 74743 zip code, so it is considered to be a part of Hugo Oklahoma even though its 20.2 miles (32.5 km) from Frogville, but it is still in Choctaw County as a town (Census web). Furthermore, the closest school to Frogville is the The Kiamichi Technology Center now serves the Hugo area for the purpose of higher education (Mandevill). The schools that would be available to Frogville are Hugo Elementary school 1100 David Roebuck Lane, Hugo Middle school 300 North E., Hugo High school 201 E. Brown (Henry), Fort Towson Elementary West 3rd Street, and Fort Towson High School West 3rd Street (Mandevill). Oklahoma is a mostly farming state and most all of Frogville property is farmland (Smallwood). The number of farms in 1970 was 91,000 with 37,100, 0 acres (0 km2); overall the use of land to farm has been decreasing by 10,000 every ten years, but this is not a definite trend there are also years that farms have increased and again decreased (Dodd). The closest post office is in Sawyer, Oklahoma 74756 which is 9.2 miles (14.8 km) away (UPS). Choctaw County contains thirty one cities towns and places and the population of all of them equals 15,342 . Frogville did not even show up as a place on the census board or the small city/towns locator or even the Oklahoma.gov page. The smallest population in Choctaw County was 1,009 which means Frogville has an even smaller population because it was not large enough to be placed on the city or town scale (Census web). In the town of Frogville there are two reservoirs, one cemetery, and the only major highway that is used to reach Frogville is highway 109 (Google Maps).
Further reading
Shirk, George H.; Oklahoma Place Names; University of Oklahoma Press; Norman, Oklahoma; 1987: ISBN 0-8061-2028-2 .
Lambert, Valerie. "Political Protest, Conflict, and Tribal Nationalism." Oklahoma Choctaws and the Termination Crisis of 1959–1970. 31.2 (2007): 283-309. Print.
Smallwood, James. ""Partners in Progress: Banking and agribusiness in Oklahoma"." Journal of the west. (1900's): 11-20. Print.
Henry, Brad. United States. Oklahoma's official web stie. oklahoma city: oklahoma state, 2010. Web. 4 Sep 2010. <http://www.sde.state.ok.us/Services/Directory/pdf/Directory.pdf>. <http://www.ok.govredirect.php?link_id=109>
United States. Choctaw County Oklahoma Fact Sheet. Choctaw County: Census Bureau, 2010. Web. 4 Sep 2010. <http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/SAFFFacts?_event=Search&geo_id=05000US40023&_geoContext=01000US|04000US40|05000US40023&_street=&_county=choctaw+county&_cityTown=choctaw+county&_state=04000US40&_zip=&_lang=en&_sse=on&ActiveGeoDiv=geoSelect&_useEV=&pctxt=fph&pgsl=050&_submenuId=factsheet_1&ds_name=DEC_2000_SAFF&_ci_nbr=null&qr_name=null%AE=null%3Anull&_keyword=&_industry=>.
Faulkner, Dave. United States. Roger State University It's Personal OMA. Frogville: RSU/OMA, 2010. Web. 4 Sep 2010. <http://www.rsu.edu/oma/>.
"Atlas of the World." Oklahoma. 7. National Geographic, 1999. Print.
Dodd, Don. United States. Historical statistics of the South, 1790-1970. Alabama: University, University of Alabama Press, 1973. Print.
"Google Maps." Google. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, 2010. Web. 12 Sep 2010. <http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&expIds=17259,24538,25901,26515&sugexp=ldymls&xhr=t&q=publisher+of+maps+on+google&cp=27&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl>.
"United States Postal Service." Postal Office Locations. UPS, 2010. Web. 4 Sep 2010. <http://usps.whitepages.com/post_office/ok/frogville>.
University of Texas, . "Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection ." Texas Topographic Maps. University of Texas, 1951. Web. 12 Sep 2010. <http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/texas/txu-pclmaps-topo-tx-frogville-1951.jpg>.
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