It’s an isolated town-a five-hour drive from Oklahoma City-hunkered beneath a giant sky, amidst a shifting pallet of neverending buffalo grass. As its tourist brochure says: Still not a stoplight in the county!īoise (rhymes with choice) City is the county seat and the largest town in the county with 1,168 people. Today it’s the least populous county in Oklahoma, with almost one square mile for every person. In the 1930s, Cimarron County was the epicenter of the Dust Bowl. This is High Plains country, where temperatures can drop 50 degrees in a day, and it rains an average of only 18 inches a year. The sheer vastness of the space is dislocating, the wind incessant, the beauty of the landscape stark. Cimarron County is at the westernmost edge of the Oklahoma Panhandle, bordered by Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas.
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