Newkirk is a city in and the county seat of Kay County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 2,172 at the 2020 census.
Kay County Courthouse (2010)
Main street looking north, Newkirk, Oklahoma (1907)
Main Street looking north with grain elevator in background (2011)
Kaw Lake is a reservoir completed in 1976 in the northern reaches of the U.S. state of Oklahoma, near Kaw City which is located on a hill overlooking the lake. The lake is approximately 8 miles east o
Newkirk, Oklahoma
…Kaw Indian tribe are 1 mile (1.6 km) east. The Arkansas River is 6 miles (9.7 km) east of town. The bridge across the river crosses the upper end of Kaw Lake. Near the river are the Deer Creek/Bryson Paddock sites, where archeologists excavated the ruins of two prominent 18th-century Wichita Indian villages…
Looking North from the road over the dam across the Arkansas River July 14, 2007
The Arkansas River just below the spillway at Kaw Lake as water is being released after heavy rainfall, July 14, 2007