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Tahlequah
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city in Oklahoma, United States
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Within Vinony's link graph, Tahlequah is referenced by 1,143 other articles, and connects out to race and ethnicity in the United States Census, United States Census Bureau and Cherokee Nation.
The entry is geolocated on the map in city.
Vinony files it under 1839 establishments in Indian Territory, Cherokee towns in Oklahoma and Cities in Cherokee County, Oklahoma.
Its subject is documented across 50 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Oklahoma
- County
- Cherokee
- Cherokee nation
- founded 1838; second capital city
- Mayor
- Suzanne Myers
- Total
- 12.87 sq mi (33.33 km )
- Land
- 12.76 sq mi (33.06 km )
- Water
- 0.10 sq mi (0.27 km )
- Elevation
- 814 ft (248 m)
- Density
- 1,269.7/sq mi (490.24/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 (CDT)
- Zip codes
- 74464-74465
- Area codes
- 539/918
- Fips code
- 40-72100
- Website
- www .cityoftahlequah .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Tahlequah
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Cherokee County
- Population
- 16209
- Area
- 32.355172
- Elevation
- 243
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Capital of
- Cherokee County
- Official website
- www.cityoftahlequah.com
- Image
- NSU Net Lab.jpg
- Households
- 6166
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- Commons category
- Tahlequah, Oklahoma
- topic's main category
- Category:Tahlequah, Oklahoma
- postal code
- 74465
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Tahlequah, Oklahoma
- inception
- 1838-00-00
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- P8168
- Palazzo
- water as percent of area
- 0.3448
- per capita income
- 21601
- native label
- ᏓᎵᏆ
Sources (9)
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Encyclopedic overview
Tahlequah (/ˈtæləkwɑː/ TAL-ə-kwah; Cherokee: ᏓᎵᏆ, daligwa [dàlígʷá]) is a city in Cherokee County, Oklahoma located at the foothills of the Ozark Mountains. It is part of the Green Country region of Oklahoma and was established as a capital of the 19th-century Cherokee Nation in 1839, as part of the new settlement in Indian Territory after the Cherokee Native Americans were forced west from the American Southeast on the Trail of Tears.
As of the 2020 census, Tahlequah had a population of 16,209.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tahlequah” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.