St. Mary Municipal Court. US 61 and SR U run into St. Mary. Maps drawn toward the end of the 18th century showed the area of the city, at the time known as Sainte Marie's Landing. After several ownership changes; towards the end of 1839 an enterprising young man bought the tract of land which contained the city and had a landing for boats.
â¢ SIZE: The big lake covers 55,000 acres. It has 1,375 miles of shoreline, longer than the entire state of California. It stretches 92 miles from end to end. â¢ DOCKS: There are 70,000 boat docks on the lake, and many of them provide good hiding places and shade for the bass.
Oklahoma has approximately 167,600 miles of rivers/streams.*. Oklahoma's longest river is the Beaver/North Canadian River (752 miles); the Red River is the second longest (570 miles).*. Oklahoma's largest lake in surface area is Eufaula (105,000 acres); Lake Texoma is second (88,000 acres). The state's largest lake in conservation storage is Texoma (2.6 million acre-feet of water); Eufaula is second (2.3 million acre-feet). Average annual lake evaporation in Oklahoma ranges from 48 inches in the extreme east to 65 inches in the southwest, numbers that far exceed the average yearly rainfall in those areas.