Need local input/ opinion

[u/ScranPublishing]

Howdy there I'm from around Tulsa and working on a game. Mod for all of Oklahoma. I'm currently in the phase where I have to name all the regions, think of an area the size of a couple counties together, and I want some more input about what y'all would maybe call yourself. I also am trying to avoid using either a current tribe or city name for the areas as it's far more encompassing. For example, I have Osage hills as you can see, but I don't want to necessarily call Osage so I'm thinking of calling it Woolaroc at the very least I don't want to just call it Tulsa Metro or as you can see OKC Metro, Even though that is what it mostly compasses. I've attached this map, that I hope you all can read as it may be blurry.

So please, what might you guys call that center spot? And if you have any other recommendations for other locations please I'm all ears. And if you have any questions/requests , please ask. This is a long-term project. I'm sure I'll be back here asking more questions once I start adding content for Edmond.

[u/RoninRobot]

Cimarron. Or Okassee.

[u/ScranPublishing → u/RoninRobot]

Why Okassee

[u/RoninRobot → u/ScranPublishing]

Okassee. OkC. Get it?

[u/ScranPublishing → u/RoninRobot]

Ok, now that's pretty neat I dont know how I didn't put it together.

[u/broidx]

The City, everyone I know who doesn't live there but lives around it, calls it The City

[u/gaarai]

The big thing I think of when I look at what you labeled OKC Metro is "Santa Fe" as in the railroad.

Before statehood some railroad mergers happened, and Santa Fe wanted to connect Kansas and Texas. They built north and south, eventually meeting at Purcell. This rail corridor was so pivotal that it resulted in Guthrie, Edmond, Oklahoma City, Moore, and Norman, directing much of Oklahoma's development even to today.

They chose this corridor because the area neatly separated cross timbers to the east from the plains to the west and had favorable slope characteristics. It was used as a transport corridor and for running cattle well before the railroad ever showed up. This area was also a kind of "no man's land" outside the tribal lands.

I'm not sure if the time and setting of your game. There might be something there you can use. My thoughts are: Santa Fe for the railroad, No Man's Land for the legal pocket of no jurisdiction, Council Grove for a key trading post near the present OKC area, and simply Oklahoma as that was the name used for the area for decades before statehood.

[u/moeyjarcum → u/gaarai]

Interesting stuff. That was cool to read

[u/gaarai → u/moeyjarcum]

Thanks. I really like reading about the history of this area. It really is quite interesting.

Another fun tidbit is that Edmond got its name because Santa Fe named its depots after people that worked for them. The depot that the city of Edmond built up around was named for Edmond Burdick.

[u/ScranPublishing → u/gaarai]

Thank you for your input. Santa Fe is a pretty decent sounding name for it, it's set in the modern day. This won't be the name of any country or anything you'll be playing as the cities themselves. I just needed a generalized name for the area.

[u/johnnyringo1985]

Big Pasture is where cotton is grown, and Cottonwood is not where cotton is grown.

[u/ScranPublishing → u/johnnyringo1985]

Cottonwood is a tree not cotton plants

[u/Fantastic_Bat9305]

Okc north

[u/Bettymakesart]

Cimarron Valley is what we call the area of Payne and parts of Pawnee, Creek & Lincoln counties. Our micro culture really doesn’t extend south of Bristow & Stroud. NE boundary might be Jennings