48 Facts About Tulsa Oklahoma

Tulsa Oklahoma was settled between 1828 and 1836 by the Lochapoka Band of Creek Native American tribe and most of Tulsa Oklahoma is still part of the territory of the Muscogee Nation.

The area around Tulsa was settled by members of the other so-called "Five Civilized Tribes" who had been relocated to Oklahoma from the Southern United States.

On January 18, 1898, Tulsa Oklahoma was officially incorporated and elected Edward Calkins as the city's first mayor.

Tulsa Oklahoma was still a micro town near the banks of the Arkansas River in 1901 when its first oil well, named Sue Bland No 1, was established.

However, the City of Tulsa Oklahoma allowed the dam to deteriorate and it no longer functions to retain the lake for which it was designed.

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Tulsa Oklahoma's Mies-trained modernist Robert Lawton Jones designed many buildings in the region, including the Tulsa Oklahoma International Airport.

South, East, and Midtown Tulsa Oklahoma are home to a number of the ranch and Mid-Century Modern homes that reflect Tulsa Oklahoma's prosperous post-war period.

Tulsa Oklahoma has the third-, and fourth-tallest buildings in the state, including the Cityplex Tower, which is located in South Tulsa Oklahoma across from Oral Roberts University, far from downtown.

Tulsa Oklahoma has a number of cycling trails, and has installed protected bike lanes in parts of the downtown area.

Tulsa Oklahoma has a temperate climate of the humid subtropical variety with a yearly average temperature of 61.

Tulsa Oklahoma is part of the Southern region demographers and commentators refer to as the "Bible Belt, " where Protestant and, in particular, Southern Baptist and other evangelical Christian traditions are very prominent.

Tulsa Oklahoma is home to a number of vibrant Mainline Protestant congregations.

Tulsa Oklahoma is home to the progressive All Souls Unitarian Church, reportedly the largest Unitarian Universalist congregation in the United States.

Tulsa Oklahoma has diversified to capitalize on its status as a regional hub with substantial innovation assets.

Tulsa Oklahoma is home to a burgeoning media industry, including PennWell, consumer review website ConsumerAffairs, Stephens Media Group, This Land Press, Educational Development Corporation, GEB America, Blooming Twig Books, and a full range of local media outlets, including Tulsa Oklahoma World and local magazines, radio and television.

Tulsa Oklahoma is a hub for national construction and engineering companies including Manhattan Construction Company and Flintco.

Tulsa Oklahoma is home to a division of Lufthansa, the headquarters of Omni Air International, and the Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology.

Tulsa Oklahoma will invest an estimated $130 million for this state-of-the-art facility, which will employ around 1, 500 people with an annual payroll of roughly $50 million.

Tulsa Oklahoma culture is influenced by the nearby Southwest, Midwest, and Southern cultural regions, as well as a historical Native American presence.

Since 1969, public displays of artwork in Tulsa Oklahoma have been funded by one percent of its annual city budget.

Tulsa contains several permanent dance, theater, and concert groups, including the Tulsa Ballet, the Tulsa Opera, the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra, Light Opera Oklahoma, Signature Symphony at TCC, the Tulsa Youth Symphony, the Heller Theatre, American Theatre Company, which is a member of the Theatre Communications Group and Oklahoma's oldest resident professional theatre, and Theatre Tulsa, the oldest continuously operating community theatre company west of the Mississippi River.

Many of the world's best choreographers have worked with Tulsa Oklahoma Ballet including: Leonide Massine, Antony Tudor, Jerome Robbins, George Balanchine, Paul Taylor, Kurt Jooss, Nacho Duato, Val Caniparoli who is its resident choreographer (with seven works and four world premieres), Stanton Welch, Young Soon Hue, Ma Cong, Twyla Tharp and many others.

City's film community hosts annual festivals such as the Tulsa Oklahoma United Film Festival and Tulsa Oklahoma Overground Film and Music Festival.

City's zoo, the Tulsa Oklahoma Zoo, was voted "America's Favorite Zoo" in 2005 by Microsoft Game Studios in connection with a national promotion of its Zoo Tycoon 2 computer game.

Tulsa Oklahoma has one major amusement park attraction, Safari Joe's H2O Water Park, featuring multi-story water slides, large wave pools, and a reptile exhibit.

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Tulsa Oklahoma is known nationally for its barbecue offerings; its barbecue reflects its midpoint location "between pig country and cow country, " that is, in the transition zone between the South and the West.

Tulsa Oklahoma is home to the nationally acclaimed premium smoker manufacturer Hasty-Bake Company.

Some Tulsa Oklahoma based barbecue joints have expanded even beyond the state's borders, including Leon's Smoke Shack, Rib Crib and Billy Sims Barbecue.

The prize-winning Oklahoma Joe's was founded by Oklahoman Joe Davidson, who mastered his craft at Tulsa's T-Town BBQ Cook-Off.

Tulsa Oklahoma barbecue is unique in its emphasis on hickory-smoked baloney, nicknamed "Tulsa Oklahoma tenderloin, " and its fried okra.

Greek immigrants to Tulsa Oklahoma who came by way of Brooklyn, Pennsylvania and Michigan brought with them the tradition of Coney Island-style hot dogs with chili on a bun.

Tulsa Oklahoma is home to several national dessert companies: Daylight Donuts was founded in Tulsa Oklahoma and remains headquartered there, as is the Bama Pie Company.

Tulsa Oklahoma is home to FC Tulsa Oklahoma, which competes in the USL Championship.

Saint Francis Tulsa Tough Ride and Race is a three-day cycling festival in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Tulsa Oklahoma experienced elevated levels of gang violence in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when crack cocaine flooded neighborhoods in North Tulsa Oklahoma.

North Tulsa Oklahoma has the highest crime rate in the city, with public housing projects being the most heavily affected areas.

When Tulsa Oklahoma incorporated in 1899, it took over the school, which became the first public school.

Tulsa Public Schools, with nine high schools and over 41, 000 students, is the second-largest school district in Oklahoma and includes Booker T Washington High School, a magnet school judged to be the 65th best high school in the United States by Newsweek magazine in 2008.

The McFarlin Library at the University of Tulsa Oklahoma is a federal depository library holding over three million items.

Tulsa Oklahoma has 15 institutions of higher education, including two private universities: the University of Tulsa Oklahoma, a school founded in 1894, and Oral Roberts University, a school founded by evangelist Oral Roberts in 1963.

Tulsa Oklahoma has a Tulsa Oklahoma branch of Langston University, the only historically black college or university in the state, founded in 1897.

Tulsa Oklahoma Voice is an Alt-Weekly newspaper covering entertainment and cultural events.

Until 1992, the Tulsa Oklahoma Tribune served as a daily afternoon newspaper competing with the Tulsa Oklahoma World.

Urban Tulsa Oklahoma Weekly served as the city's alt-weekly paper from 1991 until its closure in 2013.

Highways that run through Tulsa Oklahoma are I-44, I-244, US-412, US-169, OK-66, US-64, US-75, OK-11, OK-51, Creek Turnpike, and Gilcrease Expressway.

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Tulsa Oklahoma debuted its first bus rapid transit line, Aero on Peoria Avenue, in November 2019.

Freight railways bisect the city in every direction; the state's chief freight rail transporter is BNSF, which operates the Cherokee Rail Yard in Tulsa Oklahoma, which includes a freight terminal, diesel shop and hump yard for railcar sorting.

At the head of the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System, the Tulsa Oklahoma Port of Catoosa is an inland port in the United States and connects barge traffic from Tulsa Oklahoma to the Mississippi River via the Verdigris River and the Arkansas River.