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What about the homepage of the city [1]? There it says that "The
actual name comes from the fact that our town site on a strip of
Cherokee land famous for the Oklahoma Land Run. The name stands for
<b>Indian Exchange Land</b>".<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Florian<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20140618122535/http://visitixlok.com/welcome">http://web.archive.org/web/20140618122535/http://visitixlok.com/welcome</a><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 18.06.2014 06:40, schrieb Paul
Johnson:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Am I to assume that if nobody actually can remember
what an abbreviation means, it's appropriate to go with it
anyway? Example: I. X. L., Okfuskee County, Oklahoma: I can't
find an expansion of this town's name, and suffice to say the
town's population is small enough with a high enough turnover
that it's not something that can be readily determined by asking
around. Closest I've come to expanding it is regional lore that
it's the initials of a wildcatting company, or a portmanteu of
the initials of the town's founders, though I've yet to be able
to substantiate either etymology. I strongly suspect that
whatever IXL originally stood for is completely beyond long
forgotten at this point, so, safe to give up</div>
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