About 75 people took refuge at a church in Davis in southern Oklahoma.

Thirty-eight tornadoes touched down over the area, most of which took place across northern and western Texas, in addition to southern Oklahoma.

"The only thing that's in southern Oklahoma is two million acres that there's nothing on except cattle and oil wells," Mr. Burris said.

On February 15, 2008, a magnitude 2.4 earthquake was reported in southern Oklahoma.

Rare strays can be found up to southern Oklahoma and northern Louisiana.

Camp Simpson, southern Oklahoma's "slice of heaven."

For one, Republican leaders made a successful appeal to Mr. Watkins of southern Oklahoma to reconsider his plans to retire.

During October 13 and 14, a total of 13 tornadoes were reported in northern Texas and southern Oklahoma.

Before striking it rich in the oil fields of southern Oklahoma and east Texas in the 1920s, the couple had taught school at Burneyville.

Born in southern Oklahoma, he became a state senator in 1941, until he assumed the office of governor in 1955.