One Town, Two States

I have mentioned this before, but I am doing a project in the Oklahoma panhandle. The town is half in Oklahoma and have in Texas. Because the town is split by the state line, the Elementary School is in Texas and the rest in Oklahoma. The elementary has its own school board and gets funds from Texas and when the kids move to Junior high they are funded by Oklahoma with it own school board as well.

Today, I was driving around town and noticed something odd. The Texas side of town has wide paved streets with curbs and all while many of the Oklahoma streets are narrow with ditches on each side. I asked a couple of questions and found that the town also has two sets of city councils.

But this is NOT two towns, just two layers of governments totally separate. You know when you go into Texas by the change in license plates!

The other weird thing is that the "Welcome to Oklahoma" sign and the "Welcome to Texas" signs are on opposite sides of the town, implying that the town is in neither!