The white oaks are species of trees in the genus ''Quercus''
section ''Quercus''.
White oak, White Oak or Whiteoak may also refer to:
Tree species
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Quercus alba
''Quercus alba'', the white oak, is one of the preeminent hardwoods of eastern and central North America. It is a long-lived oak, native to eastern and central North America and found from Minnesota, Ontario, Quebec, and southern Maine south as ...
'', the species most commonly known as the white oak
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Quercus bicolor
''Quercus bicolor'', the swamp white oak, is a North American species of medium-sized trees in the beech family. It is a common element of America's north central and northeastern mixed forests. It can survive in a variety of habitats. It forms ...
'', swamp white oak
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Quercus arizonica
''Quercus arizonica'', the Arizona white oak, is a North American tree species in the beech family. It is found in Arizona, New Mexico, western Texas, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Sinaloa, and Durango.
Description
The Arizona white oak is o ...
'', Arizona white oak
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Quercus garryana
''Quercus garryana'' is an oak tree species named for Nicholas Garry, deputy governor of the Hudson's Bay Company. It is commonly known as the Garry oak, Oregon white oak or Oregon oak.
The species is found in the Pacific Northwest, with a rang ...
'', Oregon white oak or Garry oak
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Quercus lobata
''Quercus lobata'', commonly called the valley oak or roble, is the largest of the California oaks. It is endemic to the state, growing in interior valleys and foothills from Siskiyou to San Diego counties. Deciduous, it requires year-round grou ...
'', California white oak or valley oak
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Quercus polymorpha
''Quercus polymorpha'', the Mexican white oak, Monterrey oak or netleaf white oak, is a North American species of oak. It is widespread in Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras, and known from a single population in the United States (about north of t ...
'', Mexican white oak or Monterrey oak
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Lagunaria patersonia
''Lagunaria patersonia'' is a species of tree in the family Malvaceae. It is commonly known as the pyramid tree, Norfolk Island hibiscus, Queensland white oak, sally wood, or simply as white oak on Norfolk Island
Norfolk Island ( , ; ) is ...
'', the Queensland white oak
Places in the United States
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White Oak, Georgia
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Whiteoak, Indiana
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White Oak, Kentucky
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White Oak, Maryland
White Oak is a census-designated place and unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. It had a population of 16,347 in 2020.
White Oak was known for its Naval Ordnance Laboratory, which was closed in 1994. The headquart ...
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White Oak, Missouri
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White Oak, North Carolina
White Oak is a census-designated place (CDP) in Bladen County, North Carolina, Bladen County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 346 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census.
History
Desserette and Harmony Hall (White Oak, Nor ...
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White Oak, Ohio (in Hamilton County)
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White Oak, Brown County, Ohio
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White Oak, Fayette County, Ohio
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White Oak, Oklahoma
White Oak is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Craig County, Oklahoma, United States, along State Highway 66, approximately one mile (1.6 km) west of that road's eastern terminus with U.S. Route 60. As of ...
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White Oak, Pennsylvania
White Oak is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 7,630 at the 2020 census. It is a suburb of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. White Oak was named for a stand of white oak trees near the original town s ...
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White Oak, Texas
White Oak is a city in Gregg County, Texas, Gregg County, Texas, United States. It was incorporated in 1960. The population was 6,225 as of 2020 United States census, 2020.
History
In the later parts of the 1800s, White Oak was a small farmin ...
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White Oak, Virginia
White Oak is a small agricultural unincorporated community on the Potomac River in southeastern Stafford County in the U.S. state of Virginia.
It is the hometown of Patawomeck chief Robert "Two Eagles" Green. He was an adviser to the filmmakers ...
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White Oak, Raleigh County, West Virginia
White Oak is an unincorporated community in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States. White Oak is located on West Virginia Route 3, southeast of Shady Spring. White Oak has a post office
A post office is a public facility and a retai ...
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White Oak, Wisconsin
White Oak Springs is a town in Lafayette County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 118 at the 2010 census, up from 97 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated community of White Oak is located in the town.
Geography
White Oak Springs ...
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White Oaks, New Mexico
White Oaks is a ghost town in Lincoln County, New Mexico, United States. Located on the outskirts of the Lincoln National Forest, it became a boomtown in 1879 following the discovery of gold and coal in the nearby Jicarilla Mountains.
History ...
Bodies of water or wetlands
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White Oak Bayou
White Oak Bayou is a slow-moving river in Houston, Texas. A major tributary of the city's principal waterway, Buffalo Bayou, White Oak originates near the intersection of Texas State Highway 6 and U.S. Highway 290 (the Northwest Freeway) and me ...
in Texas
* White Oak Lake in
White Oak Lake State Park
White Oak Lake State Park is a state park in the southwest of the U.S. state of Arkansas, a few miles from Bluff City. The reservoir sits surrounded by tall pine trees, giving it a rich, wooded beauty. The state park offers camping facilities, h ...
, Arkansas
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White Oak Pocosin
The White Oak Pocosin is a large swamp in northern Onslow County and southern Jones County, North Carolina in the United States. It provides the headwaters of the White Oak River. The word pocosin
Pocosin is a type of palustrine wetland with ...
in North Carolina
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White Oak Pond
White Oak Pond is a water body in Grafton County in the Lakes Region of central New Hampshire, United States, in the town of Holderness. Water from White Oak Pond flows north to Squam Lake and is part of the Pemigewasset River watershed.
See ...
in New Hampshire
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White Oak River
The White Oak River is a blackwater river, close to 48 mi (77 km) long, on the coastal plain of southeast North Carolina in the United States. It empties in the Atlantic Ocean.
Course
It rises in the White Oak Pocosin in northern Onsl ...
in North Carolina
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Whiteoak Creek Falls
Whiteoak Creek Falls, is a waterfall in the Pisgah National Forest, in North Carolina.
Geology
The falls is located on Whiteoak Creek, a tributary of the South Toe River, which itself is a tributary of the North Toe River.
Height
There are mul ...
in North Carolina
Other uses
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Whiteoaks Communications Group
Whiteoaks Communications Group is a media company based in Oakville, Ontario that owns several radio stations in Ontario as well as Christian podcasting platform, Faith Strong Today Media. The company was founded in 1956 as CHWO Radio Limited by Ho ...
, a broadcasting company that owns several radio stations in Golden Horseshoe region of southern Ontario, Canada.
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''White Oak'' (film), a 1921 silent western starring William S. Hart
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Whiteoak High School
Whiteoak High School is a public high school in Mowrystown, Ohio, USA, and the only high school in the Bright Local Schools district. The student-teacher ratio is 15:1. The school mascot is the Wildcat. The high school and junior high are in the ...
, Mowrystown, Ohio
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White Oak, Kent, part of the town of
Swanley
Swanley is a town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England, southeast of central London, adjacent to the Greater London boundary and within the M25 motorway periphery. The population at the 2021 ce ...
, in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, United Kingdom
See also
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White Oak Township (disambiguation)
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White Oak Church
White Oak Church, also known as White Oak Baptist Church and White Oak Primitive Baptist Church, is a historic Primitive Baptist church located off White Oak Road in Falmouth, Stafford County, Virginia. It was built sometime between 1789 and 18 ...
in Virginia
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White Oak Dance Project
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White Oak Conservation
White Oak Conservation, which is part of Walter Conservation, is a conservation center in northeastern Florida. It is dedicated to the conservation of Endangered species, endangered and threatened species, including Indian rhinoceros, southern ...
, a wildlife and conservation center outside Yulee, Florida
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White Oak mill
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