Bartlesville

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Bartlesville
Downtown Bartlesville
Downtown Bartlesville
Location in Oklahoma
Bartlesville, Oklahoma
Bartlesville
Bartlesville
Basic data
Foundation : January 15, 1897
State : United States
State : Oklahoma
Counties : Washington County
Osage County
Coordinates : 36 ° 45 ′  N , 95 ° 58 ′  W Coordinates: 36 ° 45 ′  N , 95 ° 58 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Residents : 35,750 (as of 2010)
Population density : 654.8 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 54.7 km 2  (approx. 21 mi 2 ) of
which 54.6 km 2  (approx. 21 mi 2 ) is land
Height : 215 m
Postcodes : 74003-74006
Area code : +1 918
FIPS : 40-04450
GNIS ID : 1089874
Website : www.cityofbartlesville.org

Bartlesville is a city in Oklahoma in the United States . It is located partly in Osage and partly in Washington County and has 35,750 inhabitants (2010). Bartlesville is 75 kilometers north of Tulsa and very close to Oklahoma's northern border with Kansas . It is the administrative seat of Washington County, in which most of the city is located.

Bartlesville was the seat of the Phillips Petroleum Company for a long time until it merged with Conoco to form ConocoPhillips . Frank Phillips , after whom the town's main street was named (the hospital was named after his wife Jane), founded Phillips Petroleum in Bartlesville in 1905 when the area was still an Indian territory . Phillips has always been the city's biggest employer. ConocoPhillips now primarily employs administrative staff in Bartlesville, while refining and processing operations are located elsewhere in the state and around the world.

There is a daily newspaper and several radio stations in the city. Along with Anadarko, it is one of the two places in Oklahoma where a Lenape tribe lives.

education

Bartlesville is home to Oklahoma Wesleyan University , a private, religious institution of Wesleyan Church with approximately 400 students, and a branch of Rogers State University with approximately 700 students.

geography

Bartlesville has an area of ​​54.7 km² and is located on the Caney River , which separates downtown from the East Side. The river burst its banks in October 1986 after heavy rainfall, dividing the city in half for several days and causing considerable property damage. A weaker flood occurred again in June 2007.

tourism

One of Bartlesville's attractions is the downtown Price Tower designed by Frank Lloyd Wright . The OK MOZART, a week-long international music festival, takes place every June in the nearby Bartlesville Community Center. This began in 1985 and includes classical concerts, jazz, opera performances and other things related to the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . Have occurred, among others, already Itzhak Perlman , Joyce Yang , Joshua Bell and Andre Watts .

Various annual festivals and performances are also held in the city. Sunfest consists of three festivals on the first weekend of June: an art exhibition and music festival in Sooner Park, a vintage automobile show in Johnstone Park, and a double-decker show at Bartlesville Airport. Another classic air show takes place in autumn. An Indian Summer Festival is also held every fall in the Community Center . A series of concerts for young people called “The Wherehouse” shows Christian and alternative rock bands and artists several times a month.

Frank Phillip's former home in Bartlesville is now a museum run by the Oklahoma Historical Society. His ranch "Woolaroc" (from woo ds, la kes, roc ks / forests, lakes, rocks) 16 kilometers southwest of the city includes a museum with Phillips' extensive collection of Indian, regional and modern art as well as his weapons collection on 15 km² , which is one of the most complete in the world, his burial site, a game reserve with bison , elk , Texan longhorn , water buffalo and zebra herds as well as over 20 other animal species.

Known residents

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