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in 1985, Tulsa centralized responsibility for all city flood, drainage, and stormwater programs in a Department of Stormwater Management . A stormwater utility fee was established by ordinance in 1986 to operate the program. Owners of all properties in the city are required to pay the fee, which was established by an ordinance at $2.58 per month.
The city jail was in the basement. [9] The city quickly outgrew that facility and began renting office space in the privately owned Reeder Building. In 1917, Tulsa government offices moved into a much larger facility at Fourth and Cincinnati, formally called the Tulsa Municipal Building, to house city services.
The building was first occupied in 1917, finished construction in 1919 and was the seat of city government until 1969. [2] [3] The building was vacant between 1969 and 1973, when it was renovated by architect Joe Coleman. [1] [2] In 1975, the building was the second building in Tulsa listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [2] [4]
The Tulsa City-County Library and the University of Tulsa's Law Library are also federal depository libraries, making Tulsa the only city in Oklahoma with more than two federal depository libraries. [172] The Tulsa City County Library's Downtown branch was massively renovated and opened to the public on Saturday, October 1, 2016.
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In March 2024, the City of Tulsa announced that Zink Lake would begin to be filled. [1] The lake is set to open to the public during the 2024 Labor Day weekend. [ 2 ]
In 1952, Lake Eucha in Delaware County, Oklahoma, was created by completion of the Eucha dam on Spavinaw Creek. [1] The nearest town is Jay, Oklahoma. [2] This lake is owned by the City of Tulsa, Oklahoma and functions as additional storage and as a buffer for Lake Spavinaw, which is the principal municipal water source for Tulsa.
The Tulsa metropolitan area, officially defined as the Tulsa metropolitan statistical area is a metropolis in northeastern Oklahoma centered around the city of Tulsa and encompassing Tulsa, Rogers, Wagoner, Osage, Creek, Okmulgee and Pawnee counties. It had a population of 1,044,757 according to the 2023 U.S. census estimates.