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Elk City

Oklahoma, United States
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Elk City, city, Beckham county, western Oklahoma, U.S., on Elk Creek. Laid out in 1901, the town was first called Busch after the St. Louis brewing family. It is now the service centre for an agricultural, oil, and livestock area and has industries that include oil refining, gas recycling, cotton-gin equipment, furniture manufacturing, and feed production. The Sandstone Creek Project, concerned with upstream flood control of the Washita River, is 5 miles (8 km) northwest,...

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