Relocating to Oklahoma?

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Before you start your journey, take a minute and review what makes Oklahoma a great place to work and play.

What makes Oklahoma real estate worthwhile?

Officially established as the Indian Territory in 1834, Oklahoma is still home to the largest population of Native Americans in the United States. Most of the state’s 252,000 Native Americans live in the rolling hills and woodlands of eastern Oklahoma. The Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, and Creek peoples—known to Europeans as the Five Civilized Tribes because of the way they readily adopted European culture—were forcibly relocated to this region by the federal government about 30 years after the United States acquired the land through the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. Over the next decade tens of thousands of Native Americans were compelled to migrate to Indian Territory from the southeast United States. Thousands perished as they trod wearily along the passage that came to be known as the Trail of Tears.

Today petroleum and agricultural products form the foundation of the state’s economy, backed by an underdeveloped manufacturing sector that focuses largely on the processing of raw materials. Although the output of oil and natural gas fields has fallen off in the 1990s, Oklahoma continues to rank among state leaders in the extraction of these petroleum products. Sprawling ranches and efficient feedlots have made Oklahoma an important producer of beef cattle, and the state’s farmers harvest substantial crops of wheat, hay, cotton, and greenhouse items. The state’s factories—concentrated in Oklahoma City and Tulsa—manufacture automobiles, aircraft, industrial machinery, and electronic equipment.

The huge petroleum reserves and fertile farmlands of Oklahoma are distributed throughout an extraordinarily diverse mix of topographical regions. In contrast to neighboring Texas, which has only five main land types, Oklahoma comprises ten distinct physical subregions, even though it is only about one-fourth the size of Texas. Among the many tableaux of Oklahoma are the angular peaks and thin, stony soils of the Wichita and Arbuckle mountains, the wooded heights of the Sandstone and Gypsum hills, and the flat-topped hills of the Ozark Plateau separated by sheer-walled river valleys.

Much of the state’s coal, petroleum, and livestock comes from the Prairie Plains, curving around the Ozark Plateau in the state’s northeast corner. The grassy slopes and forests of the Red Beds Plains, a wide tract in central Oklahoma, hold most of the state’s larger towns. The Ouachita Mountains of the southeast are the most rugged part of Oklahoma, their steep sandstone ridges interwoven by clear-running streams. Some of the state’s most fertile farmland is found in the Red River region, a narrow strip along the southeast border with Texas. In the extreme northwest, the High Plains cover the Panhandle. In this region, flat expanses of elevated land blanketed by prairie grasses are broken occasionally by rugged, flat-topped mesas.

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