Ada, Oklahoma For other uses of "Ada", see Ada .
Ada, Oklahoma Pontotoc County Courthouse in Ada Pontotoc County Courthouse in Ada Location in the state of Oklahoma Location in the state of Oklahoma State Oklahoma Water .1 sq mi (.2 km2) 0% Ada is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, United States. The populace was 16,810 at the 2010 census, an increase of 7.1 percent from 15,691 at the 2000 census. The town/city was titled for Ada Reed, the daughter of an early settler, and was incorporated in 1901. Ada is home to East Central University, and is the command posts of the Chickasaw Nation.
Ada is an Oklahoma Main Street City, an Oklahoma Certified City, and a Tree City USA member. In the late 1880s, the Daggs family (by way of Texas) became the first white family to settle what is now known as Ada, which was formerly known as Daggs Prairie.
In 1891, a postal service was established and titled after Reed's earliest daughter, Ada. Ada incorporated as a town/city in 1901 and interval quickly with the arrival of the St.
Within a decade the Santa Fe Railroad and the Oklahoma Central Railway also served the town. In 1909, the women of Ada organized an accomplishment to build a normal school in their city.
Marshal and member of the small-town freemason lodge. The town had a populace of about 5,000 at the time, and 38 murders a year at the time of the lynching. The Daily Ardmoreite reported that the four lynched men were "one of the bloodiest band of murderers in the state of Oklahoma and an organization of experienced assassins, that for a record of blood crimes, probably has no equal in the annals of criminal history in the entire southwest." The first manufacturing business in Ada, the Portland Cement Company, installed the first cement clinker in Oklahoma in 1910.
The following sites in Ada are listed on the National Register of Historic Places: Ada Public Library East Central State Normal School Ada is positioned in the rolling hills of southeastern Oklahoma.
Ada is 88 miles (142 km) from Oklahoma City, 122 mi (196 km) from Tulsa, and 133 mi (214 km) from Dallas, Texas. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 15.8 square miles (40.9 km2), of which 15.7 square miles (40.7 km2) is territory and 0.1 square miles (0.3 km2) (0.44%) is water.
Climate data for Ada, Oklahoma Chickasaw language stop sign, with Chickasaw word "Hika" ("stop"), in Ada, Oklahoma.
As of the 2010 census, Ada's 16,810 inhabitants consisted of 6,697 homeholds and 3,803 families.
Ada's 2006 ethnic makeup was 73.81% White, 3.54% African American, 15.10% Native American, 0.83% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.89% from other competitions, and 5.81% from two or more competitions.
Of Ada's 6,697 homeholds, 25.9% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 40.6% were married couples living together, 12.6% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 43.2% were non-families.
Ada's per capita income was $14,666.
The economy of Ada is diversified.
In 1975, the Chickasaw Nation opened its command posts in Ada. Revenues for the Nation were over 12 billion dollars in 2011, most of which is funneled through Ada. The Robert S.
Ada City Schools Mercy Hospital Ada City of Ada East Central University, positioned in Ada, is a enhance four-year institution that has been in operation since 1909.
Main article: Ada Independent School District Ada Public Schools has six major and secondary schools.
Ada Junior High School Ada High School Pontotoc Technology Center (formerly Pontotoc Area Vo-Tech) is positioned in Ada.
Oklahoma State Highway 3 Harry Brecheen - former Major League Baseball All Star pitcher; graduated from Ada High School; buried at Ada's Rosedale Cemetery Monte Hale Western-genre film star; born in Ada Kerr former Oklahoma Governor and long-time U.S.
Don Owen - Louisiana news anchor and politician, worked in radio in Ada early in his longterm position Robbins Wisconsin Librarian of the Year (2001); titled one of Oklahoma's 100 Library Legends; director of the School of Library and Information Studies at University of Wisconsin Madison; author of two award-winning books; longtime resident of Ada and first woman town/city council member and mayor Jeremy Shockey former NFL tight end; born and interval up in Ada Ron Williamson - minor league baseball player wrongly convicted and sentenced to death in 1988 in Ada for rape and murder but eventually exonerated.
In 2006, a true crime book by author John Grisham brought Ada into the nationwide spotlight by relating various false convictions and imprisonments resulting from two unconnected murder trials.
Two of the books examining these cases are The Dreams of Ada (1987) by Robert Mayer and The Innocent Man, Grisham's first non-fiction book.
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Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Ada (Oklahoma).
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Ada Jobs Foundation website Ada photos on Flickr (unofficial) Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture - Ada Municipalities and communities of Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, United States County seats in Oklahoma
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