Indian Territory Gazetteer Paden ~ Purgatory

The names appearing in parentheses at the end of the description in the following gazetteer refer to the atlas sheets published separately by the United States Geological Survey.

Paden; post village in Creek Nation on Fort Smith and Western Railroad.

Page; post village in Choctaw Nation on Kansas City Southern Railway. (Winding Stair)

Palmer; post village in Chickasaw Nation. (Stonewall)

Panama; post village in Choctaw Nation on Kansas City Southern Railway. (Sallisaw)

Panola; village in Choctaw Nation on Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad; elevation, 623 feet. (Tuskahoma)

Panther; creek in Cherokee Nation, a left-hand branch off Lightning Creek, a tributary to Verdigris River. (Vinita, Nowata)

Panther; creek in Cherokee Nation, a left-hand branch of Verdigris River, a tributary to Arkansas River. (Claremore)

Panther; creek in Chickasaw Nation, a right-hand branch of Criner Creek, a tributary to Washita River. (Rush Springs)

Panther; creek in Chickasaw Nation, a right-hand branch of Wildhorse Creek, a tributary to Washita River. (Addington)

Panther; creek in Chickasaw Nation, a right-hand branch of Rush Creek, a tributary to Washita River. (Pauls Valley)

Panther; creek in Choctaw Nation, a left-hand branch of Muddy Boggy Creek. (Coalgate)

Panther; creek in Creek Nation, a small right-hand branch of Polecat Creek, a tributary to Arkansas River. (Nuyaka)

Panther; creek in Creek Nation, a right-hand branch of Arkansas River. (Claremore)

Panther; mountain summit in Choctaw Nation. (Sansbois)

Panther; village in Choctaw Nation. (Sallisaw)

Paoli; post village in Chickasaw Nation on Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway; population, 234 elevation, 916 feet. (Pauls Valley)

Parkhill; creek in Cherokee Nation a right-hand branch of Illinois River. (Tahlequah)

Parkhill; post village in Cherokee Nation on St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad. (Tahlequah)

Parka; post village in Chickasaw Nation.

Paro; post village in Creek Nation.

Parsons; post village in Choctaw Nation.

Pashubbe; creek in Choctaw Nation, a left-hand branch of Kiamichi River. (Winding Stair)

Patton; village in Choctaw Nation on Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway. (Pryor)

Paucaunla; post village in Chickasaw Nation. (Bonham)

Pauls Valley; post village in Chickasaw Nation on Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway; population, 1,467; elevation, 875 feet (Pauls Valley)

Pawpaw; creek in Cherokee Nation, a right-hand branch of Cabin Creek, a tributary to Neosho River. (Vinita)

Pawpaw; post village in Cherokee Nation. (Sallisaw)

Peaceable; creek in Choctaw Nation, a left-hand branch of Gaines Creek, a tributary to Canadian River. (McAlester)

Peachland; creek in Choctaw Nation, an intermittent right-hand branch of Long Creek, a tributary to Fourche Maline. (Tuskahoma)

Peachland Chapel; village in Choctaw Nation. (Tuskahoma)

Pearl; creek in Choctaw Nation, a right-hand branch of Kiamichi River. (Tuskahoma)

Pearl; village in Chickasaw Nation Rush Springs.

Peavine; creek in Cherokee Nation, a left-hand branch of Barren Fork, a tributary to Illinois River. (Tahlequah)

Peavine; creek in Chickasaw Nation, a left-hand branch of Washita River. (Pauls Valley)

Pecan; creek in Cherokee Nation, a right-hand branch of Cedar Creek, a tributary to Neosho River. (Vinita)

Pecan; creek in Choctaw Nation; a right-hand branch of Cache Creek, a tributary to Arkansas River. (Sallisaw)

Pecan; creek in Creek Nation, a right-hand branch of Arkansas River. (Okmulgee, Muscogee)

Peck; post village in Choctaw Nation on Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway; elevation, 615 feet.

Pegga; post village in Cherokee Nation.

Pennington; creek in Chickasaw Nation, a left-hand branch of Washita River. (Tishomingo)

Peno; station on Kansas City Southern Railway.

Pensacola; post village in Cherokee Nation. (Pryor)

Peoria; post village in Peoria Reservation; population, 144. (Wyandotte)

Peoria; reservation in the north eastern part of Territory with an area of 79 square miles. Population, 1,180; 995 white,

184 Indian. (Wyandotte)

Pero; creek, a left-hand branch of Little River, rising in Choctaw Nation and flowing into Little River in Arkansas. (Lukfata)

Perry; creek in Choctaw Nation, a left-hand branch of Red River. (Shawneetown)

Perry; village in Choctaw Nation on Kansas City Southern Railway; elevation, 660 feet. (Winding Stair)

Perryville; creek in Choctaw Nation, a right-hand branch of Peaceable Creek, a tributary to Gaines Creek. (McAlester)

Peter Bandy; creek in Chickasaw Nation, a left-hand branch of Blue River. (Tishomingo)

Petersburg; post village in Chickasaw Nation. (Montague)

Petros; village in Choctaw Nation, on Kansas City Southern Railway (Winding Stair)

Philadelphia; creek in Creek Nation, a right-hand branch of Nuyaka Creek, a tributary to Deep Fork of Canadian River. (Nuyaka, Wewoka.

Philipsburg; village in Creek Nation, (Nuyaka)

Phillips; post village in Choctaw Nation on Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway. (Coalgate)

Phillips; mountains in Choctaw Nation. (Winding Stair)

Pickens; village in Chickasaw Nation. (Tishomingo)

Pickwick; station on St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad.

Pigeon; creek in Choctaw Nation, a right-hand branch of Kiamichi River. (Winding Stair)

Pike; post village in Chickasaw Nation. (Gainesville)

Pine; creek in Cherokee Nation, a left-hand branch of Vine Creek, a tributary to Arkansas River. (Tahlequah)

Pine; creek In Chickasaw Nation, a right-hand branch of Mud Creek, a tributary to Red River Addington,

Fine; creek in Choctaw Nation, a right-hand branch to Little River. (Alikchi)

Pine; creek in Choctaw Nation, a left-hand branch of Kiamichi River. (McAlester, Antlers)

Pine; mountain, a name applied to some disconnected, broken ridges of Ozark Hills in Choctaw Nation, trending generally northeast and southwest. (Wyandotte, Lukfata, McAlester, Coalgate, Tuskahoma)

Pine; post village in Choctaw Nation.

Piney; creek in Choctaw Nation, a left-hand branch of Caney Boggy Creek, a tributary to Muddy Boggy Creek, (Coalgate)

Piney; creek in Choctaw Nation, a right-hand branch of Long-town Creek, a tributary to Canadian River. (Sansbois)

Platter; post village in Chickasaw Nation.

Platter Junction; station on St Louis and San Francisco Railroad.

Plumb; creek in Cherokee Nation, a left-hand branch of Verdigris River, a tributary to Arkansas River. (Nowata, Vinita)

Pocahontas; village in Choctaw Nation on St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad; elevation, 556 feet. (Winding Stair)

Pocasset; post village in Chickasaw Nation.

Pocola; post village in Choctaw Nation, (Sallisaw)

Poindexter; ferry across Neosho River in Cherokee Nation. (Pryor)

Pointer; creek in Choctaw Nation, a right-hand branch of Boggy Creek. (Antlers)

Poison; station on Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway.

Polecat; creek in Creek Nation, a right-hand branch of Arkansas River. (Nuyaka, Claremore)

Pond; creek in Chickasaw Nation, a right-hand branch of Canadian River. (Chickasha)

Pontotoc; post village in Chickasaw Nation; population, 366. (Tishomingo)

Porter; post village in Creek Nation on Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway.

Porum; village in Cherokee Nation. (Sansbois)

Posey; creek in Creek Nation, a right-band branch of Arkansas River. (Okmulgee)

Posey; village in Creek Nation. (Okmulgee)

Possum; creek in Choctaw Nation, a right-hand branch of Brazil Creek, a tributary to Poteau River, (Sallisaw)

Possum; creek in Choctaw Nation, a left-hand branch of Kiamichi River. (Alikchi)

Possum; creek in Creek Nation, a right-hand branch of North Fork of Canadian River, tributary to Canadian River, (Canadian)

Postoak; creek in Cherokee Nation, a left-hand branch of Caney River, a tributary to Verdigris River. (Nowata)

Postoak; creek in Chickasaw Nation, a left-hand branch of Mud Creek, a tributary to Red River, (Addington)

Potato; creek in Choctaw Nation, a right-hand branch of McGee Creek, a tributary to Muddy Boggy Creek. (Antlers)

Potato; group of hills in Choctaw Nation. (Winding Stair)

Potato; summits In Choctaw Nation. (Sallisaw)

Poteau; post village in Choctaw Nation on Kansas City Southern Railway; population 1,182; elevation, 484 feet. (Sallisaw)

Poteau; ridge of the Ozark Hills north of Poteau River, lying mainly in Arkansas and extends but slightly into Choctaw Nation. The greatest altitude is about 2,500 feet. (Winding Stair, Fort Smith, Sallisaw, Poteau Mt.)

Powell; post village in Chickasaw Nation. (Denison)

Prairie Center; village in Cherokee Nation, elevation, 778 feet. (Vinita)

Praper; post village in Creek Nation.

Pries; post village in Creek Nation.

Proctor; post village in Cherokee Nation on St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad.

Proctor; village in Creek Nation Canadian.

Provence; post village in Chickasaw Nation on Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf and St. Louis and San Francisco Railroads. (Ardmore)

Pryor; creek in Cherokee Nation, a right-hand branch of Neoaho River. (Vinita, Pryor)

Pryor Greek; post village in Cherokee Nation on Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway; population, 495; elevation, 625 feet (Pryor)

Pumpkin; creek in Chickasaw Nation, a left-hand branch of Hickory Creek, a tributary to Red River. (Ardmore)

Purcell; town in Chickasaw Nation on the south bank of Canadian River on Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway; population, 2,277; elevation, 1,027 feet.

Purdy; post village in Chickasaw Nation; population, 250. (Rush Springs)

Purgatory; creek in Cherokee Nation, a left-hand branch of Caney River, a tributary to Verdigris River. (Nowata)

Indian Territory Gazetteer

Source: United States Geological Survey, by Henry Gannett, Oklahoma, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Charles D. Walcott. Director, Washington, Government Printing Office, 1905.

 

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