Lake Frederick is a reservoir in Tillman County, Oklahoma. It is located about northeast of the town of Frederick, which owns it. It was constructed in 1974 for flood control and to provide a water supply. It has a total surface area of , and a total volume of . It has about of shoreline.
Anglers can expect to catch a variety of fish including Channel Catfish, Largemouth Bass and Walleye. Facilities around Lake Frederick include boat ramps, boat dock, fishing dock, RV and tent campsites, picnic areas, outdoor grills, showers, restrooms, playground, pavilion, volleyball court, and hiking/biking/ATV trails.
Deep Red Creek The Lake Frederick watershed is located in the northern portion of Tillman County and is approximately . The primary tributary and major outflow from the lake is Deep Red Creek. That stream originates just east inside the Comanche County, Oklahoma line south of State Highway 49 and east of State Highway 54, before traveling generally southwest into Kiowa County and eventually Tillman County, joining Lake Frederick from the north. Below the lake, the creek travels generally south-southeast before terminating east-southeast of Manitou, Oklahoma, without being a tributary of another creek or river.
Paleontology The shoreline of Lake Frederick has produced a diverse fauna of Early Permian vertebrates. The presence of taxa like Dimetrodon limbatus and Ophiacodon retroversus suggest an Artinskian age for the locality. The Lake Frederick locality belongs to the Garber Sandstone and the age has been dated to 281 million years ago.
Chondrichthyes +Cartilaginous fish of The Lake Frederick LocalityGenusSpeciesNotesOrthacanthusO.sp.A large xenacanthid.BarbclaborniaB.luederensisA giant xenacanthid.DicentrodusD.sp.A small xenacanthid.
Sarcoptergyi +Lobe finned fishes of the Lake Frederick localityGenusSpeciesNotesSagenodusS.porrectusA lungfish.
Amphibia +Amphibians of the Lake Frederick LocalityGenusSpeciesNotesDiplocaulusD.sp.A lepospondyl.AchelomaA.sp.A temnospondyl.ArcheriaA.sp.An embolomere.EryopsE.megacephalusA temnospondyl.TrimerorhachisT.insignisA dvinosaur.
Reptiliomorpha +Reptiliomorphs of the Lake Frederick localityGenusSpeciesNotesCaptorhinusC.agutiA captorhinid.DiadectesD.sp.A diadectid.
Synapsida +Synapsids of the Lake Frederick LocalityGenus SpeciesNotesDimetrodonD.limbatusA sphenacodont.EdaphosaurusE.boanergesAn edaphosaurid.OphiacodonO.retroversusAn ophiacodontid.
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