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The republic’s stranger paperwork.
A US event, place, or institution documented in federal, state, or municipal records.
The Colorado broke through a half-finished irrigation headgate in 1905 and took until 1907 to put back. But the river had filled that basin on its own before, and each time the basin dried out again.
Oklahoma's 2004 relocation covered only families with children under seven. Then the Army Corps found a third or more of homes had collapse potential. Then, in 2008, an EF4 tornado hit the town.
The fire is real and the town is gone. The two details everyone repeats — the trash fire, and the 250 years — are the two the record supports least.
