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[[Image:OklaStatue.jpg|thumb|Life size Boy Scout bronze statue located at the entrance of the [[Osage County, Oklahoma|Osage County]] Historical Museum]]
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'''Scouting in Oklahoma''' has a long history, from the [[1910s]] to the present day, serving thousands of youth in programs that suit the environment in which they live.
==Early history (1909-1950)==
The first [[Boy Scouts of America|Boy Scout]] troop in America is claimed to have been organized in [[Pawhuska, Oklahoma#Notability|Pawhuska]], in [[May 1909]] by Reverend [[John F. Mitchell]]. Pawhuska is in the [[Scouting in Oklahoma#Cherokee Area Council|Cherokee Area Council]].

==Recent history (1950-present)==
==Scouting in Oklahoma today==

There are seven [[Boy Scouts of America]] local councils based in, or providing services within, the state of [[Oklahoma]].

===Arbuckle Area Council===
The [[Boy Scouts of America]] '''Arbuckle Area Council'''
maintains offices in [[Ardmore, Oklahoma]], and serves youth and their families in Pontotoc, Murray, Johnston, Garvin, Coal, Atoka, Carter, Love and Marshall counties in southern [[Oklahoma]]. The [http://www.arbucklebsa.org/ Arbuckle Area Council] provides a web presence for its membership and other interested persons.
====Districts====
*Chickasaw District
*Harry Miller District
*Washita District

====Camp Properties====
====OA Lodge====
[http://www.arbucklebsa.org/Wisawanik190Home.html Wisawanik Lodge #190]

===Cherokee Area Council===

The Boy Scouts of America '''Cherokee Area Council''' maintains an office in [[Bartlesville, Oklahoma]], and serves youth and their families in northeastern Oklahoma. The [http://www.cherokeebsa.org Cherokee Area Council] provides a web presence for its membership and other interested persons.

====Districts====
*Grand Lake District
*Osage Hills District

====Camp Properties====
====OA Lodge====

===Cimarron Council===
[[Image:Cimarrons1.gif‎|thumb|right|The Cimarron Council]]
The Boy Scouts of America '''Cimarron Council''' maintains an office in [[Enid, Oklahoma]], and serves youth and their families in northwestern and north central Oklahoma. The [http://www.cimarronbsa.org/ Cimarron Council] provides a web presence for its membership and other interested persons.

====Districts====
*[http://cimarronbsa.org/101.asp 101 District]
Colonel George W. Miller founded the 101 Ranch in northern Oklahoma in 1893. He and his wife Molly, sons Joe, Zack and George Jr. along with daughter, Alma helped establish what became known as the "Largest Diversified Farm and Ranch in America".

The Miller family also fielded the 101 Wild West Show and traveled the United States and the world from 1905 to 1931. Pioneers in movie making, some of the first western movies were filmed on the 101 Ranch located in north central Oklahoma. Presidents and celebrities from around the world were entertained at the ranch and the family home, known as the "White House" which in addition to headquarters for the vast empire of more than 110,000 acres was a palace on the Oklahoma prairie.

The headquarters site was listed as an Oklahoma Historical Site, placed on the National Register of Historic Places and became a National Historic Landmark in 1975.
*[http://cimarronbsa.org/gnw.asp Great Northwest District]

*[http://cimarronbsa.org/enid.asp Enid Metro District]
Enid is home to Vance Air Force Base and is said to have been named by a railroad official after a character in Tennyson's "The Idylls of the King." It is a town that was born overnight as the result of the largest land run in history. At noon on Sept. 16, 1893, hundreds of thousands of land seekers charged into the Cherokee Outlet seeking free land and a new start in life. They came on horseback and in horse-drawn wagons and buggies. Some rode trains into the Outlet. There were even a few who made the race on bicycles or on foot. Droves of settlers lined up at the land office that afternoon and for days afterwards to file their claims for land in a place to be called Enid.

*[http://www.cimarronbsa.org/PawneeBill.asp Pawnee Bill District]
The Pawnee Bill District takes its name from Major Gordon W Lillie. Named White Chief of the Pawnee by the Pawnee Indians. Growing up, Buffalo Bill Cody was Pawnee Bill's boyhood hero. From the 1890's to the 1930's, Pawnee Bill's Wild West Show was the biggest and the best of all the touring Wild West Shows. Pawnee Bill's wife, May Lillie, became an expert marksman and she starred in Pawnee Bill's Wild West Show. In the glory days of Pawnee Bill's Wild West Show, they carried a cast and crew of 645 people, over 400 horses and steers, a herd of 20 buffalo, the world's largest power plant or generator, and a 21 foot oven. All of this was loaded on a specially designed train and they toured the world for over 30 years.

Today's Pawnee Bill's Wild West Show is a reenactment of the Original Wild West Show that toured the world from the 1890's to the 1930's. Pawnee Bill's Mansion in Pawnee, Oklahoma is now a Museum and host to the Original Wild West Show. Pawnee Bill was a major supporter of Scouting, offering the Pawnee Bill Ranch in his will to the Boy Scouts of America.
====Camp Properties====
*Will Rogers Scout Reservation
*Williams Scout Reservation
*Sundance Scout Training Center
*Camp Renfrew
*Camp Nescatauga

====OA Lodge====
[[Image:Emaomahpe.gif‎|thumb|right|The Cimarron Council]]
[[Ema O' Mahpe]]

===Golden Spread Council===

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'''Golden Spread Council''' serves Scouts in [[Texas]] and Oklahoma.

===Indian Nations Council===
The [[Boy Scouts of America]] '''Indian Nations Council'''
maintains offices in [[Tulsa, Oklahoma]], and serves most of eastern [[Oklahoma]]. The [http://www.okscouts.org Indian Nations Council] provides a web presence for its membership and other interested persons.
====Scout Units====

* Troop 26, Tulsa, Oklahoma
* Troop 241, Tulsa, Oklahoma
* Troop 44, Owasso, Oklahoma
* Troop 48, Tulsa, Oklahoma
* Troop 89, Skiatook, Oklahoma
* Troop 930, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma (Twin Arrows District)
* Troop 117, Bixby, Oklahoma
* Troop 4, Tulsa, Oklahoma

====Districts====
*Bokchito District
*Creek Nation District
*Eagle District
*Neosho District
*Indian Chiefs District (No longer active, disbanded into Sequoyah and Twin Arrows in 2004)
*Oka Tuli District
*Sac and Fox District
*Sequoyah District
*Twin Arrows District
====Camp Properties====
*'''Camp Garland, Locust Grove, OK'''
*'''Camp Russell, Broken Arrow, OK '''
*'''Hale Scout Reservation, Talihina, OK'''
*'''Zink Scout Ranch, Sand Springs, OK'''

====OA Lodge====
===Last Frontier Council===
[[Image:Last_Frontier.PNG|thumb|160px|right|The Evolution of the Last Frontier Council Patches]]
The '''Last Frontier Council''', [[Boy Scouts of America]] delivers the promise of Scouting to youth through these programs: Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Varsity Scouts, Venturing and Sea Scouts. The [http://www.lastfrontiercouncil.org Last Frontier Council]web site serves as a resource for parents, Scouts, Venturers and volunteer leaders.<br><br>The council operates [http://www.lastfrontiercouncil.org/camps.htm six camps] and is based in two [http://www.lastfrontiercouncil.org/service_centers.htm service centers]which are located in [[Lawton, Oklahoma]] and [[Oklahoma City, Oklahoma]]. Last Frontier Council supports its volunteer leaders, who deliver Scouting in twenty-four counties in central, western and southwestern [[Oklahoma]].

====Units====
In Last Frontier Council, scouting units which have an online presence and have notified the council of their online presence are listed in the [http://www.lastfrontiercouncil.org/online-units.htm online units] section of the council web site. Last Frontier Council, in conjunction with the Boy Scouts of America, also makes available a [http://www.lastfrontiercouncil.org/find-scout-unit.htm scout unit locator] feature to help prospective members or members new to the area find a scout unit.

====History====
====Districts====
The [http://www.lastfrontiercouncil.org/districts/baden-powell.htm Baden-Powell District] geographic territory covers Northwest [[Oklahoma City]] from Memorial Road on the North to Santa Fe Avenue on the East to County Line Road on the West, and along Reno Avenue on the South in [[Oklahoma County]], [[Oklahoma]].

The [http://www.lastfrontiercouncil.org/districts/big-tepee.htm Big Tepee District] geographic territory includes the Capitol Hill area of southwest [[Oklahoma City]] and portions of northeast Oklahoma City and the eastern [[Oklahoma County]] communities of [[Midwest City]], [[Del City]], [[Jones]], [[Harrah]], and [[Choctaw]]. Also included are Crooked Oaks School District and [[Tinker Air Force Base]]. The district boundaries include, from I-40 and Santa Fe, traveling North on Santa Fe Ave. to 63rd St., East to Anderson Road then North to Memorial Road (which includes Jones) then East to the county line. Traveling South from Memorial Road to 89th St., then go West to County Line Road and then North on County Line Road to I-40. Travel East on I-40 from County Line Road to Santa Fe Ave.

The [http://www.lastfrontiercouncil.org/districts/black-beaver.htm Black Beaver District] geographic territory covers the Oklahoma communities of Lawton, Cache, [[Medicine Park, Oklahoma|Medicine Park]], and all other communities in [[Comanche County, Oklahoma|Comanche County]], and all [[Caddo County, Oklahoma|Caddo County]] communities except for those communities which are in the northern tip of Caddo County. Named for the former Black Beaver Council, when it was absorbed into the Last Frontier Council, the troop numbers of the council were augmented by making them all of the 4000 series (i.e. Black Beaver Council 327 became Last Frontier Council 4327).

The [http://www.lastfrontiercouncil.org/districts/canadian-valley.htm Canadian Valley District] geographic territory includes all communities in [[Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma|Pottawatomie County]], [[Seminole County, Oklahoma|Seminole County]], [[Hughes County, Oklahoma|Hughes County]] and also the communities in the southern one-third of [[Lincoln County, Oklahoma|Lincoln County]].

The [http://www.lastfrontiercouncil.org/districts/chisholm-trail.htm Chisholm Trail District] geographic territory includes all communities in [[Grady County, Oklahoma|Grady County]] except for a small area in the north eastern part of Grady County which is in [[Sooner District]], all communities in [[Cotton County, Oklahoma|Cotton County]] and [[Stephens County, Oklahoma|Stephens County]], all communities in [[Jefferson County, Oklahoma|Jefferson County]] except for a small portion in the southeast corner of Jefferson County. Chisholm Trail District also includes the city of [[Lindsay, Oklahoma]] which is located in [[Garvin County, Oklahoma|Garvin County]].

The [http://www.lastfrontiercouncil.org/districts/eagle.htm Eagle District] geographic territory covers all of [[Logan County, Oklahoma|Logan County]] and the north tip of [[Oklahoma County, Oklahoma|Oklahoma County]] including [[Edmond, Oklahoma|Edmond]] from Memorial Road north and west to Macarthur. Communities served through Eagle District include NW Oklahoma City, [[Edmond, Oklahoma|Edmond]], [[Guthrie, Oklahoma|Guthrie]], [[Crescent, Oklahoma|Crescent]], [[Coyle, Oklahoma|Coyle]], [[Luther, Oklahoma|Luther]], [[Langston, Oklahoma|Langston]] and [[Mulhall, Oklahoma|Mulhall]]/[[Orlando, Oklahoma|Orlando]] in Logan County and Oklahoma County. The town of [[Wellston, Oklahoma|Wellston]] in [[Lincoln County, Oklahoma|Lincoln County]] is also a part of Eagle District.

The [http://www.lastfrontiercouncil.org/districts/kickingbird.htm Kickingbird District] geographic territory covers all of [[Harmon County, Oklahoma|Harmon County]], [[Greer County]], [[Kiowa County, Oklahoma|Kiowa County]], [[Jackson County, Oklahoma|Jackson County]], and [[Tillman County]] in Oklahoma.

The [http://www.lastfrontiercouncil.org/districts/sooner.htm Sooner District] geographic territory in [[Oklahoma]] covers [[Norman, Oklahoma|Norman]], [[Moore, Oklahoma|Moore]], [[Little Axe, Oklahoma|Little Axe]], [[Washington, Oklahoma|Washington]], [[Goldsby, Oklahoma|Goldsby]] and all other communities in [[Cleveland County, Oklahoma|Cleveland County]]; [[Purcell, Oklahoma|Purcell]], [[Blanchard, Oklahoma|Blanchard]], [[Wayne, Oklahoma|Wayne]], and all other communities in [[McClain County, Oklahoma|McClain County]]; [[Tuttle, Oklahoma|Tuttle]] and some other communities in eastern [[Grady County, Oklahoma|Grady County]].

The [http://www.lastfrontiercouncil.org/districts/western-plains.htm Western Plains District] geographic territory in western [[Oklahoma]] includes all of [[Roger Mills County, Oklahoma|Roger Mills County]], [[Custer County, Oklahoma|Custer County]], [[Beckham County, Oklahoma|Beckham County]], [[Washita County, Oklahoma|Washita County]], and the northern tip of [[Caddo County, Oklahoma|Caddo County]] in Oklahoma.

The [http://www.lastfrontiercouncil.org/districts/will-rogers.htm Will Rogers District] geographic territory includes all communities in [[Canadian County]] and western [[Oklahoma County]] from Portland Avenue and to the west and from NW 39th Street and to the south.

====Camp Properties====
* '''Diamond H Scout Ranch'''
Located near Lake Tenkiller, the [http://www.lastfrontiercouncil.org/camps/diamond-h.htm Diamond H Scout Ranch] is located in eastern Oklahoma. The camp property is currently undeveloped and restricted in use. Only primitive, weekend camping is presently available. Advanced reservations are required to visit the property.
* '''Dripping Springs'''
[http://www.lastfrontiercouncil.org/camps/dripping_springs.htm Camp Dripping Springs] is an 80 acre property in western Oklahoma. The camp setting offers the opportunity for Scouts to practice tracking, track casting, star study, compass work, fishing, or tree identification.
* '''George Thomas'''
[http://www.lastfrontiercouncil.org/camps/camp_george_thomas.htm Camp George Thomas] is located at the foot of the Wichita Mountains in Caddo County off State Highway 19. The camp is used for general unit camping by packs, troops, teams, crews and ships, for training courses, numerous district and council events, Cub - Webelos Scout Resident Camp, and the council's Cub-Webelos Fall Family Adventure (family weekend camping) opportunities each fall.
* '''Kickapoo'''
[http://www.lastfrontiercouncil.org/camps/camp-kickapoo.htm Camp Kickapoo], maintained since 1932, is the oldest camp property within the council. Located on the southwest edge of Oklahoma City at SW 119th and County Line Road, Kickapoo is available year round to Scout groups for overnight campouts, weekend campouts, and various training opportunities. Camp Kickapoo serves as the host location for several day camp weeks each summer and for the Kickapoo Kampers Family Overnight Adventures each fall.
* '''Sasakwa'''
[http://www.lastfrontiercouncil.org/camps/sasakwa.htm Camp Sasakwa]
is situated near near Holdenville, Oklahoma. the property is used for primitive, short-term camping only, offering a low-impact, high adventure setting. Advance reservations are required and all supplies and water must be carried in and all refuse must be carried out.
* '''Slippery Falls Scout Ranch'''
[http://www.lastfrontiercouncil.org/camps/sfsr.htm Slippery Falls Scout Ranch (SFSR)] is located near Tishomingo. 'Slip' is the largest and the most developed of the six camping properties in the council. SFSR is the summer camp facility in the council for Boy Scouts and Venturers.

====OA Lodge====
* [http://www.manu133.org Order of the Arrow Ma-Nu Lodge 133] - means "white Buffalo"

===NeTSeO Trails Council===

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'''NeTSeO Trails Council''' serves Scouts in Texas and Oklahoma.

==<font color=green>Girl Scouting in Oklahoma</font>==

There are five Girl Scout council offices in Oklahoma.

Girl Scouts - Bluestem Council, Inc
Bartlesville, Oklahoma
Web Site: http://www.gsbluestem.org

Girl Scouts of Magic Empire Council, Inc
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Web Site: http://www.mecgs.org

Girl Scouts - Red Lands Council
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Web Site: http://www.redlandscouncil.org

Sooner Girl Scout Council, Inc
Chickasha, Oklahoma
Web Site: http://www.soonergs.org

Girl Scouts Tiak Council, Inc
Mcalester, Oklahoma
Web Site: http://www.gstiak.org

==[[Scouting museums]] in Oklahoma==
*[http://www.osagecohistoricalmuseum.com/scouts.html Osage County Historical Museum]

==External links==
*[http://www.www.cimarronbsa.org Cimarron Council]

==References==

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[[Category:Youth Organizations of Oklahoma|Boy Scouts of America]]
[[Category:Boy Scouts of America Local Councils|Oklahoma]]
[[Category:Girl Scouts of the USA Local Councils|Oklahoma]]

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