They had decided to build a reservoir on Spavinaw Creek, a tributary of the Verdigris River, over fifty miles northeast of Tulsa.
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It is about 20 mi north of Tulsa, and lies within a triangle formed by the Caney River, Verdigris River and Bird Creek.
Many of the first inhabitants came from the town of Alluwe after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers constructed the Oologah Dam across the Verdigris River to form Oologah Lake in the 1950s.