Images

USGS researcher at the Oklahoma Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit tags two pronghorn fawns in Oklahoma.

Map showing principal aquifers (PAs) and wells that were sampled as part of a Nationwide assessment of the quality of groundwater used for public supply.  

Thick vegetation at a Guymon, Oklahoma, site required parking a quarter-mile away. The pickup is visible at the top center of the photo, which was taken on November 11, 2021, the first characterization day there. (Photo by Jeff Irwin, USGS)

View downstream from the bridge at USGS site 07241520, North Canadian River at Britton Rd at Oklahoma City, OK

Rafts, kayaks, and canoes pass downstream of the Illinois River Floatcam on the Illinois River near Moodys, Oklahoma, (station 07196320) on a busy summer Saturday during the peak of the recreational floating season. The Illinois River Floatcam is located at USGS station 0719

Oklahoma has the largest Native American population of any state. Many of the 250,000 American Indians living in Oklahoma are descended from the original 67 tribes who inhabited Indian Territory. Oklahoma is tribal headquarters for 39 tribes.

Capital Oklahoma City

Image Source Landsat 8

Photograph showing USGS employees on State Highway 104 near the Arkansas River near Haskell, Oklahoma, streamgage (07165570). Photograph by Kevin Smith, U.S. Geological Survey.

 U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2020–1090

This photo show runoff from an experimental plot through a weir.  Scientists carried out the study at the Oklahoma State University South Central Research Station in Chickasha, Oklahoma. Its a good example of rain induced runoff. 

Looking downstream from U.S. Highway 62 bridge at the widespread flooding and backwater conditions on the Arkansas River near Muskogee, Oklahoma, May 31, 2019.

U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2020–1090

A direct streamflow measurement from the State Highway 20 bridge, looking downstream on the Verdigris River near Claremore, Oklahoma, near U.S. Geological Survey streamgage 07176000.

U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2020–1090

This is a graphic from the USGS National Oil and Gas Assessment Explorer application, which allows user to drill into 70 oil and gas assessment provinces throughout the United States.

View from bridge of USGS gage 07241800, North Canadian River at Shawnee, OK

Rafters enjoy the floating down the Illinois River in northeast Okalahoma.

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Chikaskia River at Tonkawa, OK

Geoprobe fieldwork at Tonkawa, OK

Groundwater-monitoring well and telemetry equipment in Osage County, Oklahoma

Pine Creek near Moyer, OK

Landsat's shortwave infrared (SWIR) band measures reduced moisture content in soil and vegetation. When combined with its near-infrared (NIR) band, which helps reveal actively growing vegetation, Landsat produces highly accurate images and maps of burned areas.

This March 2017 Landsat 8 image shows massive burned scars in Kansas and Oklahoma. More than 730,000 acres of farm and ranchland were scorched by wind-driven wildfires that began March 6 and were finally extinguished on March 22.

Tuner Falls, OK