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LeFlore

Poteau

Poteau is a town in the of and near Cavanal Hill, also known as "The World's Highest Hill". Poteau was selected as one of "The 100 Best Small Towns in America" in Norman Crapton's book by the same title.
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  • Type: Town with 8,810 residents
  • Description: city in Oklahoma, United States
  • Also known as: “Poteau, OK” and “Poteau, Oklahoma”
  • Postal code: 74953

Places of Interest

Highlights include Twyman Park.

Park
Photo: Valis55, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, on West Street in Poteau in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, has structures built in a Works Progress Administration project in 1937. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

Poteau

Latitude
35.0568° or 35° 3′ 25″ north
Longitude
-94.62° or 94° 37′ 12″ west
Population
8,810
Elevation
489 feet (149 metres)
IATA airport code
RKR
United Nations Location Code
US RKR
Open location code
8677394J+P2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151840288
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4548363
Wiki­data ID
Q2002488
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Poteau” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بوتو”
  • Basque: “Poteau”
  • Catalan: “Poteau”
  • Cebuano: “Poteau”
  • Chechen: “Пото”
  • Chinese: “Poteau”
  • Chinese: “波托”
  • Danish: “Poteau”
  • Dutch: “Poteau”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بوتو”
  • French: “Poteau”
  • German: “Poteau”
  • Gilaki: “پوتو (اؤکلاهؤما)”
  • Gilaki: “پوتو”
  • Haitian: “Poteau, Oklahoma”
  • Haitian: “Poteau”
  • Hungarian: “Poteau”
  • Ido: “Poteau, Oklahoma”
  • Ido: “Poteau”
  • Irish: “Poteau”
  • Italian: “Poteau”
  • Japanese: “ポトー”
  • Kazakh: “Potïw”
  • Kazakh: “Потиу”
  • Kazakh: “پوتىيۋ”
  • Kirghiz: “Потиу”
  • Ladin: “Poteau”
  • Malagasy: “Poteau, Oklahoma”
  • Malagasy: “Poteau”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Poteau”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Poteau”
  • Norwegian: “Poteau”
  • Persian: “پوتاو، اکلاهما”
  • Persian: “پوتاو”
  • Polish: “Poteau”
  • Portuguese: “Poteau”
  • Russian: “Пото”
  • Serbian: “Poteau”
  • Serbian: “Пото”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Poteau, Oklahoma”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Poteau”
  • Slovenian: “Poteau”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پوتاو، اوکلاهوما”
  • Spanish: “Poteau (Oklahoma)”
  • Spanish: “Poteau”
  • Swedish: “Poteau”
  • Tatar: “Пото”
  • Turkish: “Poteau, Oklahoma”
  • Turkish: “Poteau”
  • Ukrainian: “Пото”
  • Uzbek: “Poteau”
  • Uzbek: “Потеау”
  • Volapük: “Poteau”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Poteau, Oklahoma”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Poteau”
  • Welsh: “Poteau, Oklahoma‎”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Poteau”. Photo: cwsteeds, CC BY 2.0.