Bartlesville, Oklahoma
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Bartlesville is a city in Washington County, Oklahoma. The population was 34,708 at the 2006 census. Bartlesville is located forty-seven miles north of Tulsa and very close to Oklahoma's northern border with Kansas. It is the county seat of Washington County GR6, and the city's west side lies partially in Osage County.
Bartlesville is notable as the longtime home of Phillips Petroleum Company, now merged with Conoco as ConocoPhillips. Frank Phillips, who has a principal street named after him (the hospital is named after his wife Jane), founded Phillips Petroleum in Bartlesville in 1905 when the area was still Indian Territory. Phillips has always been the largest employer. Chiefly white-collar workers are employed by ConocoPhillips in Bartlesville, as the industrial extraction and refining work is done elsewhere in the state and throughout the world. The US headquarters of the Christian ministry Voice of the Martyrs is also located in Bartlesville.
The city has one daily newspaper and several radio stations. It is one of two places in Oklahoma where a Lenape tribe lives, the other being Anadarko.
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[edit] Schools
The public school system in Bartlesville serves almost 6,000 students across eight elementary sites, two middle schools, and one high school on two campuses. Students in 9th and 10th grades attend the east campus, called Bartlesville Mid-High School, while 11th and 12th grade students attend Bartlesville High School closer to downtown; combined, the two schools teach more than 1,800 students each day. Oklahoma Wesleyan University, a private religious school affiliated with the Wesleyan Church, enrolls about 600 students, and about 400 students attend the local Rogers State University campus downtown. Technical and vocational training is provided by Tri-County Technology Center, which offers several programs for high-school and adult students along with short-term courses.
[edit] Geography
Bartlesville is located at (36.747193, -95.959498)GR1.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 54.7 km² (21.1 mi²). 54.7 km² (21.1 mi²) of it is land and 0.1 km² (0.04 mi²) of it (0.09%) is water.
[edit] Demographics
As of the censusGR2 of 2006, there were 34,708 people, 14,565 households, and 9,831 families residing in the city. The population density was 635.5/km² (1,646.4/mi²). There were 16,091 housing units at an average density of 294.3/km² (762.4/mi²). The racial makeup of the city was 82.09% White, 3.20% African American, 7.18% Native American, 0.96% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 1.02% from other races, and 5.54% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.02% of the population.
There were 14,565 households out of which 30.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.9% were married couples living together, 9.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 32.5% were non-families. 29.5% of all households were made up of individuals and 14.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.35 and the average family size was 2.89.
In the city the population was spread out with 24.9% under the age of 18, 8.1% from 18 to 24, 24.8% from 25 to 44, 23.7% from 45 to 64, and 18.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females there were 90.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.1 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $35,827, and the median income for a family was $44,617. Males had a median income of $35,699 versus $23,071 for females. The per capita income for the city was $21,195. About 9.4% of families and 12.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 16.8% of those under age 18 and 7.9% of those age 65 or over.
[edit] Tourism
Price Tower, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, stands in downtown Bartlesville. The nearby Bartlesville Community Center, designed by one of Wright's students, is one of the best performance halls in the country and hosts the OK MOZART International Festival, a week-long music event, each June. Begun in 1985 organized around the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the festival features performances of classical, jazz, light opera, and more. World-renowned musicians who have performed at OK Mozart include Itzhak Perlman, Joyce Yang, and Andre Watts.
The city also has a strong underground punk and alternative music scene, mostly centering around a Christian-oriented (but not exclusively Christian) venue called The Wherehouse. The venue was opened in 1990 by Tim Cook, who later went on to manage Blindside, Pillar, and P.O.D.
Frank Phillips' former home in Bartlesville is now a museum maintained by the Oklahoma Historical Society. His ranch and retreat about 10 miles southwest of Bartlesville is called Woolaroc (a portmanteau of the words woods, lakes, rocks). Woolaroc is a working ranch of 3,700 acres (15 km²), and houses a museum exhibiting Phillips' extensive Native American, western, and fine art collections, and one of the most complete private collections of Colt firearms in the world. Also on the property are the Phillips family's lodge and mausoleum, along with a huge wildlife preserve with herds of American Bison, elk, Texas longhorn cattle, water buffalo, zebra, and more than 20 other animal species.
A Wall of Honor is located near Washington Park Mall, with names of service members listed on panels beside cabinets that display military artifacts, photos, story boards, POW/MIA listings, and other exhibits. A special display honors Oklahoma's first casualty during the Iraq War, Lance Corporal Thomas A. Blair.
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[edit] See also
- Jo Allyn Lowe Park
- Pathfinder Parkway - Bicycle and jogging path which runs throughout Bartlesville
[edit] External links
[edit] Education
- Bartlesville Public Schools
- Oklahoma Wesleyan University
- Rogers State University Bartlesville
- Tri-County Technology Center
[edit] Information and points of interest
- Bartlesville Chamber of Commerce
- City of Bartlesville
- Bartlesville Community Center
- Bartlesville Public Library
- OK MOZART International Festival
- Woolaroc Ranch, Museum, & Wildlife Preserve
- George Miksch Sutton Avian Research Center
- The Wall of Honor Veterans Memorial
- Maps and aerial photos
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- Satellite image from Google Maps, Windows Live Local, WikiMapia
- Topographic map from TopoZone
- Aerial image or topographic map from TerraServer-USA
