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4 unusual facts about Cimarron


Cimarron-class oiler

Cimarron class fleet oiler (1939), were built before and during World War II and served into the 1970s, in some cases until the Gulf War.

Florida State Road 436

Because of this, the common name for SR 436 is a combination of the names of the two counties: "Sem" and "oran", hence "Semoran Boulevard." The common pronunciation of "Semoran" resembles that of Cimarron.

Southern Company

Currently, Southern Company is building the first new nuclear units in the U.S. in 30 years at Plant Vogtle near Augusta, Georgia; building one of the largest photovoltaic plants in the U.S. at Cimarron, New Mexico; building one of the largest biomass plants at Nacogdoches, Texas; and installing over four million smart meters by 2012.

In partnership with Turner Renewable Energy, the company is building one of the largest solar photovoltaic plants in the U.S. near Cimarron, New Mexico.


Cimarron Solar Facility

The Cimarron Solar Facility is a 37 megawatt (MWp) (30 MW AC) photovoltaic solar generating facility in Colfax County, New Mexico, that uses thin film solar panels manufactured by First Solar.

David Dodd Lee

He has published poems in literary journals and magazines including Field, Denver Quarterly, CutBank, Gulf Coast, Green Mountains Review, Barrow Street, Cimarron Review, Sycamore Review, Willow Springs, Quarterly West, Prairie Schooner, and American Literary Review. Also a fiction writer, his stories have appeared in Green Mountains Review, West Branch, and other literary magazines.

Henry Alley

His stories have appeared over the past forty years in such journals as Seattle Review, Cimarron Review, Clackamas Literary Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and Harrington Gay Men’s Quarterly Fiction.

Maxwell Land Grant

The Cimarron Canyon State Park extends along Cimarron Canyon from Eagle Nest Lake to Ute Park and along US Route 64.

Rose of Cimarron

Rose Dunn or Rose of the Cimarron, an American outlaw of the Old West

Scouting in Oklahoma

The Will Rogers Scout Reservation, named for Will Rogers, one of Oklahoma's favorite sons, is the premier camping facility of the Cimarron Council.

Super Malon

Cimarrón later made a cameo appearance in Batman Incorporated #3, pretending to be a crime lord named Black Miguel.

Temple Lea Houston

Edna Ferber modeled her main character of Yancey Cravat on Houston in her novel Cimarron (1929).

The Cimarron Review

Cimarron Review has published authors such as Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago, John Ashbery, Robert Olen Butler, Mark Doty, Diane Wakoski, Tess Gallagher, Richard Shelton, Richard Lyons, Rick Bass, Pam Houston, William Stafford, Paul Muldoon, Grace Schulman, and many others.

Toyota Revo

It was so successful that General Motors (through Francisco Motors), Ford, and Chrysler (with Mitsubishi) created their own versions, including the two versions of the Pinoy and the Ford Fiera and Cimarron.

Yanga, Veracruz

Yanga, the cimarron leader after whom it is named, was an enslaved African of the Yang-Bara tribe from around present-day Guinea.


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