NearGate in Beaver County, Oklahoma — TheAmericanSouth (WestSouthCentral)
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1. No Man's Land Marker
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You are now entering old ”No Man’s Land”
Colorado/Kansas • 37th Parallel Texas State Line • 36° 30’ parallel New Mexico • 103rd Meridian Cherokee Outlet • 100th Meridian
Called “No Man’s Land” until 1890 Known then as Beaver County Became the Panhandle of Okla • Statehood 1907
The 37th parallel was chosen as the southern boundary of Colorado and Kansas. New Mexico's eastern boundary was the 103rd meridian by the Missouri Compromise. Texas came into the Union with 36° 30' parallel as their northern boundary. This northern boundary of Texas is the only state boundary in the Union set by the Missouri Compromise (Mason-Dixon). The Cherokee Outlet stopped at the 100th meridian. This left a strip of land, 34 miles wide and 167 miles long without any form of government. Congress called it the Public Land Strip but it became known as No Man's Land, being outside any jurisdiction or any form of government. It became the home of outlaws, cowboys and settlers. Beaver City was the largest town in the area. By the Organic Act of 1890, Congress attached this unclaimed land to the newly organized Oklahoma Territory with Beaver City as the County Seat. It continued thus until Oklahoma was admitted to the Union, Sat. Nov. 16, 1907.
Three counties were
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formed out of the Panhandle: Beaver, Texas, and Cimarron.
Beaver County Historical Society, Inc. Oklahoma Historical Society
No Man’s Land • Historical Towns and Sites (nearby supplemental marker)
National Register • James Lane Cabin – Beaver • Presbyterian Church – Beaver • Sharp’s Creek Crossing Archeology Site Beaver County Extension Homemakers (Organized 1917) Beaver County Historical Society, Inc. (Organized 1969)
Erected by Beaver County Historical Society, Inc., and Oklahoma Historical Society.
Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Political Subdivisions. In addition, it is included in the Oklahoma Historical Society series list.
Location. 36°50.282′N,
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2. No Man's Land Historical Sites (nearby supplemental marker)
100°0.225′W. Marker is near Gate, Oklahoma, in Beaver County. Marker is at the intersection of U.S. 64 and N1680 Road, on the right when traveling east on U.S. 64. Marker and supplemental Historical Sites marker are located in a large pull-out on the south side of the highway, at the Beaver County/Harper County line. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Gate OK 73844, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Also see . . . 1.The Secret History of the Oklahoma Panhandle. When the United States annexed Texas in 1845, the future Lone Star State was even larger than it is today, stretching all the way north into modern Wyoming. But the Missouri Compromise of 1820 had forbidden slavery north of the 36½th parallel, so Texas got its top chopped off. But the Kansas-Nebraska Act that created Kansas in 1854 used a different border: the 37th parallel, which had previously divided the Osage and Cherokee reservations in Indian Territory. There was a pesky 34-mile gap left over between Kansas and Texas. (Submitted on March 25, 2019, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.)
2.Oklahoma Panhandle: Badmen in No Man’s Land. To the east, the western line of the Cherokee Outlet was drawn at the 100th meridian, leaving a gap of just under 170 miles before you reached the New Mexico Territory line. In time, Congress officially referred to the area as the ‘Public Land Strip.’ Out West, though, men seldom called it anything but No Man’s Land.The first Anglo occupiers were mostly cattlemen, tough, adventurous types willing to fight
Photographed By Cosmos Mariner, June 12, 2011
3. Marker detail: Historical Site Map
anybody for free grass and water. (Submitted on March 25, 2019, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.)
Photographed By Cosmos Mariner, June 12, 2011
4. No Man's Land Marker (wide view)
Photographed By Cosmos Mariner, June 12, 2011
5. No Man's Land Historical Sites (wide view)
Credits. This page was last revised on October 23, 2021. It was originally submitted on March 25, 2019, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida. This page has been viewed 1,605 times since then and 646 times this year. Photos:1, 2, 3, 4, 5.submitted on March 25, 2019, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Around 1885 or 1886 the term "No Man's Land" became widely applied to the Public Land Strip. True to the plain language of the old West, the nickname referred simply to the fact that no man could legally own land in the Strip.
The Oklahoma Panhandle (formerly called No Man's Land, the Public Land Strip, the Neutral Strip, or Cimarron Territory) is a salient in the extreme northwestern region of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. It consists of, from west to east, Cimarron County, Texas County and Beaver County.
The term was originally used to define a contested territory or a dumping ground for refuse between fiefdoms. It is commonly associated with World War I to describe the area of land between two enemy trench systems, not controlled by either side.
The Neutral Strip (No Man's Land) draws its name from the area's brief stint as the buffer zone between Spain and the United States after the Louisiana Purchase. When the United States purchased the territory from France, Spain and the U.S. were in conflict over the boundary, near Natchitoches.
During World War I, No Man's Land was both an actual and a metaphorical space. It separated the front lines of the opposing armies and was perhaps the only location where enemy troops could meet without hostility.
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According to www.etymonline.com/word/no-man's-land, the old English word was “nonemanneslond, and signified an unowned waste ground outside the north wall of London, site for executions. In 1908 the term was used in World War I to mean the terrain between the front lines of entrenched armies.
The desert territory of Bir Tawil is arguably the last unclaimed space left on Earth. Wedged between the borders of Egypt and Sudan, Bir Tawil is politically-rejected by both its neighbours – an ungoverned crack between two modern nation states.
Unclaimed land — land to which no one has claimed ownership rights — and free-and-clear land doesn't exist in the United States. However, if you're willing to build a home or start a business, towns and cities in a handful of states will give you a free lot to build on.
The Republic of Texas claimed it when declaring independence. But then, upon entering the Union as a slave state in 1845, Texas surrendered its claim to the region because slavery was prohibited north of 36°30′ latitude by the Missouri Compromise of 1820. 36°30′ became the Panhandle's southern boundary.
“No mans land” was the area between the front lines of the warring armies. It may have been anything from a few metres to several miles wide depending on the terrain and the state of battle. The front line and “no mans land” for most of the war was a churned up mass of shell holes dug and redug trenches.
Populations were devastated: over 2,000,000 German, 1,000,000 British, 1,700,000 Russian and French soldiers each, perished. Fields were crisscrossed with trenches, pockmarked with craters, and littered with debris.
Following admission to the Union in 1846, the state of Texas, as a slave state, ceded the "Public Land Strip" to the United States to comply with the Missouri Compromise of 1850, which forbade slavery north of 36° 30'.
a situation or area of activity where there are no rules, or that no one understands or controls because it belongs neither to one type nor another: The families of people who die in custody are in a legal no-man's-land when they try to discover what went wrong.
The Neutral Ground (also known as the Neutral Strip, the Neutral Territory, and the No Man's Land of Louisiana; sometimes anachronistically referred to as the Sabine Free State) was a disputed area between Spanish Texas and the United States' newly acquired Louisiana Purchase.
According to www.etymonline.com/word/no-man's-land, the old English word was “nonemanneslond, and signified an unowned waste ground outside the north wall of London, site for executions. In 1908 the term was used in World War I to mean the terrain between the front lines of entrenched armies.
an area between opposing armies, over which no control has been established. an unowned or unclaimed tract of usually barren land. an indefinite or ambiguous area where guidelines and authority are not clear: a no man's land between acceptance and rejection.
The term No Man's Land brings to mind a bleak, undefined area. It's a term used globally to describe places without people, often caught between two opposing sides. It symbolizes a neutral ground filled with ambiguity, without clear ownership or meaning. No Man's Land can be a decaying city area or a barren space.
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