Editing Beaver County, Oklahoma (section)

==History==
The land where Beaver County is located has been under several jurisdictions. At one time, it was part of [[Mexico]] and then [[Texas]] before Texas became a state of the United States. Then in the [[Compromise of 1850]], Texas ceded the land that would eventually become the Oklahoma panhandle to the United States government.<ref name="EOHC-No-Mans-Land">Turner, Kenneth R.[http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=NO001 "No Man's Land,"] ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture'', 2009. Accessed March 28, 2015.</ref> The area was known as "[[No man's land|No Man's Land]]" because it belonged to no state or territorial government.<ref name="EOHC-No-Mans-Land"/> From 1886 to 1890, it was a separate organized territory known as [[Cimarron Territory]].<ref name="EOHC-BeaverCo">Hodges, V. Pauline. [http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=BE006 "Beaver County,"] ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture'', 2009. Accessed March 28, 2015.</ref>  After becoming part of the [[Oklahoma Territory]] in 1890, Beaver County (first called Seventh County) covered the entire [[Oklahoma Panhandle]].<ref name="EOHC-BeaverCo"/> At [[U.S. state|statehood]] in 1907, Cimarron County was taken from the western one-third, while [[Texas County, Oklahoma|Texas County]] was taken from the middle, leaving Beaver County only in the east.<ref name="EOHC-No-Mans-Land"/> Its borders are now at 100°W (east), 37°N (north), 36.5°N (south), and approximately 100.8°W (west).