Atoka (Okla.)

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Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)
אטוקה (אוקלהומה)
Name (Latin)
Atoka (Okla.)
Other forms of name
nnaa Atoka, Okla
Coordinates
-96.1275 -96.1275 34.38416667 34.38416667 (gooearth )
W0960742 W0960742 N0342309 N0342309 (geonames )
Associated country
United States
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 146605539
Wikidata: Q673953
Library of congress: n 82115577
Sources of Information
  • GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009(ppl; 34°23ʹ09ʺN 096°07ʹ42ʺW)

Wikipedia description:

Atoka is a city in and the county seat of Atoka County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 3,195 as of the 2020 Census, a 2.4% increase over the 3,107 reported at the 2010 census, which was itself an increase of 4.0 percent from the figure of 2,988 in 2000. The city was settled by the Choctaw and named in 1867 by a Baptist missionary for Chief Atoka, whose name means "ball ground" in English.

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