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 *Indian Exchange Land*".
Cheers, Florian [1]: http://web.archive.org/web/20140618122535/http://visitixlok.com/welcome Am 18.06.2014 06:40, schrieb Paul Johnson: > 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
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