Bartlesville, Oklahoma Bartlesville, Oklahoma Downtown Bartlesville viewed from the Price Tower (2008) Downtown Bartlesville viewed from the Price Tower (2008) Location of Bartlesville inside Oklahoma Location of Bartlesville inside Oklahoma Bartlesville, Indian Territory January 15, 1897 Bartlesville is a town/city mostly in Washington County in the U.S.
The populace was 35,750 at the 2010 census, with a 2015 estimate of 36,595 as stated to the US Enumeration Bureau. Bartlesville is 47 miles (76 km) north of Tulsa and 18 miles (29 km) from Oklahoma's northern border with Kansas.
It is the governmental center of county of Washington County. The Caney River runs through Bartlesville.
Bartlesville is the major city of the Bartlesville Micropolitan area, which consists of Washington County and has a populace of 52,021 as of 2015.
Bartlesville Micropolitan region is also part of the Tulsa Combined Travel Destination with a populace of 1,151,172 as of 2015.
Bartlesville is notable as the longtime home of Phillips Petroleum Company.
Both companies have retained some operations in Bartlesville; however, they have moved their corporate command posts to Houston.
Frank Phillips established Phillips Petroleum in Bartlesville in 1905 when the region was still Indian Territory.
He settled first at Silver Lake, a natural lake south of the present town/city of Bartlesville.
In 1874, he opened a trading post and postal service on Turkey Creek, in what is now East Bartlesville.
The postal service was moved from "North Bartlesville" in 1899.
In 1957, Bartlesville was the test site for the first experiment in pay cable television. The Bartlesville Telemovie System debuted with The Pajama Game, starring Doris Day, and aired it to an audience of 300 homes.
Bartlesville is positioned at 36 44 50 N 95 57 34 W (36.747193, -95.959498). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 21.1 square miles (54.6 km2), of which 21.1 square miles (54.6 km2) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km2) (0.09%) is water.
The Caney River flows through Bartlesville separating the downtown region from the east side.
Bartlesville is familiar with both very hot conditions in the summer with a record high of 115 F or 46.1 C and with very cold conditions with a record of low of 28 F or 33.3 C.
However, even with this record of extremes, the climate of Bartlesville is considered humid subtropical (Koppen Cfa) with mostly mild winters and hot summers, with the majority of rain falling in spring, between the months of April and June.
Bartlesville lies in Tornado Alley, meaning that harsh weather, including tornadoes, can occur.
Climate data for Bartlesville, Oklahoma As of 2010 Bartlesville had a populace of 35,750.
Before its consolidation with Conoco, Phillips Petroleum Company had its command posts in Bartlesville. After Conoco - Phillips formed, the combined business established a global systems and services office in Bartlesville. Conoco - Phillips spun most of its operations not related to Exploration and Production to form a new company, Phillips 66, in 2012.
Phillips Petroleum had a large existence in Bartlesville.
Nearly everything else in town was titled after the Phillips Petroleum business or its founder". Price Tower, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, stands in downtown Bartlesville.
The close-by Bartlesville Community Center, designed by William Wesley Peters, one of Wright's students, hosts the "OK Mozart" International Festival, an annual seven-day music event in June. Begun in 1985 organized around the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the festival features performances of classical, jazz, light opera, and more.
The Community Center also hosts the Bartlesville Community Concert Association's concert lineup.
An Oklahoma Indian Summer Festival held at the Community Center in Downtown Bartlesville each fall.
Bartlesville's downtown revitalization accomplishments are in full swing, with many blocks of National Register Historic District, and the catalyst project, the once burned out May Brothers and 1904 Buildings are coming to culmination at the downtown's center.
The initial Kress Building has been taken over by Bartlesville Monthly Magazine and restored with the Frank Phillips Club on the first floor.
The initial Jane Phillips Memorial Hospital is about to undergo historic preservation for re-use as lofts, as downtown Bartlesville is so full of young professionals that the many advanced historic lofts all have a long waiting list, and nearly twenty new retail and restaurant businesses have recently positioned in the downtown, including Indian Coffee, Lubella's Boutique, and Oklahoma's famous Hideaway Pizza. Downtown Bartlesville Inc., the Bartlesville Redevelopment Trust Authority, the Bartlesville Convention & Visitors Bureau and the Bartlesville Development Authority work in tandem to promote this grow "Next City" in Oklahoma downtown redevelopment in a City rich in petroleum history and energized for the future with the highest job expansion in Oklahoma. Frank Phillips' former home in Bartlesville is a exhibition maintained by the Oklahoma Historical Society.
His ranch and retreat about 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Bartlesville is called Woolaroc (a portmanteau of the words woods, lakes, rocks).
However, Bartlesville is the home of multiple other Bruce Goff architectural masterpieces, a home for the Price Pipe and Supply Family, by Frank Lloyd Wright, and various homes by the famous Kansas City Architect, Edward Delk. The Conference Basketball tournament for The Great American Conference is hosted in Bartlesville OK.
Oklahoma Wesleyan University, a private theological school affiliated with the Wesleyan Church, presently enrolls about 500 students at the chief campus in Bartlesville and about 1000 including satellite and online campuses.
Bartlesville Public Schools are in the Bartlesville Public School District (BPSD), also known as Independent School District 30. They include six elementary (Pre - K-5) sites, Central and Madison middle schools (6-8), and the Senior High (9-12).
Private schools in Bartlesville include St.
Boots Adams, company executive and civic philanthropist of Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
Bud Adams, owner of the Tennessee Titans; enrolled Cherokee, interval up in Bartlesville.
Todd Ames Hunter, Texas politician, born in Bartlesville in 1953 Frank Phillips, founder of Phillips Petroleum National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Oklahoma Pathfinder Parkway - Bicycle and jogging path which runs throughout Bartlesville.
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