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In the 1960s, Broken Arrow began to grow from a small town into a suburban city. The Broken Arrow Expressway (Oklahoma State Highway 51) was constructed in the mid-1960s and connected the city with downtown Tulsa, fueling growth in Broken Arrow. The population swelled from a little above 11,000 in 1970 to more than 50,000 in 1990, and then more ...
This is a list of Superfund sites in Oklahoma designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
In 1905, the Sequoyah Convention proposed creating two counties from this area. The western half would be named Coweta and the eastern half would have been named Tumechichee. However, failure of the attempt to create the state of Sequoyah negated the proposal. In 1907 at Oklahoma statehood, Wagoner County was organized.
Over the century, the names have changed, i.e. Broken Arrow Ledger-Democrat, Broken Arrow Democrat, Broken Arrow Daily Ledger, Broken Arrow Scout, when new owners took over the company. [1] The Broken Arrow Ledger was purchased as part of the Oklahoma Weekly Group in 2015 by BH Media, and was published by the Tulsa World. The final edition was ...
Commerce is a city in Ottawa County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 2,473 at the 2010 census , down 6.5 percent from the figure of 2,645 in 2000 , [ 5 ] and lower than the 2,555 residents it had in 1920 .
The world's oldest English-speaking chamber of commerce and oldest chamber of commerce in North America is the Halifax Chamber of Commerce, founded in 1750. [7] [8] The Glasgow Chamber of Commerce was founded in 1783. [9]
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In Broken Arrow 32% of adults held degrees, in Owasso 31% held degrees, in Bixby 38% held degrees, in Jenks 46% held degrees, and in Bartlesville 31% held degrees. This compares to 23.0% for all of Oklahoma and 28.2% for the entire U.S. [15] [16] In 2009, Businessweek ranked Tulsa as one of the best cities for new college grads. [17]