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Gore is a town in western Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, United States. It is part of the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 977 at the 2010 census, an increase of 15 percent from 850 at the 2000 census.〔Census Viewer: Population of the City of Gore, Oklahoma. Retrieved April 3, 2012 ()〕 Gore claims to be the "trout capital of Oklahoma", with great fishing in Lake Tenkiller, the Illinois River, and the Arkansas River.〔(Gore, Oklahoma ) Accessed March 18, 2015.〕 ==History== This community began as a small settlement in Indian Territory known as Campbell, named for Dr. W. W. Campbell, who, along with Joe Lynch, operated a ferry across the Arkansas River between Campbell and Webbers Falls. Tahlonteskee, the capital of the Western Cherokee from 1828–1839, was near here, just two miles to the north of town. In 1829, John Jolly, chief of the Cherokee Nation–West, built a home in this area. The settlement was also known as Illinois Station or "Illinois Station, Campbell Post Office." It became a stage stop on the route between Fort Gibson and Fort Smith. A post office designation of Campbell was assigned to Dr. Campbell's store in 1888. Also in 1888, the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway (later the Missouri Pacific Railway) built a rail line through the settlement.〔(Larry O'Dell, "Gore". ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture''. ) Retrieved April 3, 2012.〕 By 1909, the town had a bank, two lumber companies, a flour mill, a cotton gin, two hotels, and numerous retail outlets. The town changed its name on October 22, 1909 in honor of Oklahoma Senator Thomas Gore, who was serving as one of Oklahoma's U. S. senators immediately after statehood. A fire destroyed most of the business district in 1909. Gore had a population of 319 by the 1910 U. S. census.〔 The Kerr-McGee Company built a uranium mill on a tract located east of Gore to convert uranium ore into uranium hexafluoride (UF6). The UF6 plant was bought by General Atomics in 1988, and closed in 1993.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gore, Oklahoma」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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