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Oklahoma State Highway 123

highway in Oklahoma

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ2174156
Source-derived summary

State Highway 123 (abbreviated SH-123) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. It runs a general southwest–northeast course for 22.7 miles (36.5 km) in northern Oklahoma. SH-123 has no lettered spur routes.

Route description

SH-123 begins east of Barnsdall, Oklahoma, in Osage County at State Highway 11. It heads north to the Woolaroc Museum before turning northeast. As it approaches the Washington County line, it turns northward to parallel it. SH-123 then enters western Bartlesville, overlapping US-60 for one-fifth of a mile (0.32 km). SH-123 briefly runs east–west before turning north and leaving Bartlesville. It then heads due north until it changes course and runs due east to Dewey, where it terminates at US-75.

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The public source identifies “Oklahoma State Highway 123” as highway in Oklahoma. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Oklahoma, State and Highway.

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This entry incorporates text from Oklahoma State Highway 123” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.