Chickasha, Oklahoma Chickasha, Oklahoma Location of Chickasha, Oklahoma Location of Chickasha, Oklahoma Chickasha, Oklahoma is positioned in the US Chickasha, Oklahoma - Chickasha, Oklahoma State Oklahoma Chickasha / t k e / is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Grady County, Oklahoma, United States. The populace was 16,036 at the 2010 census. Chickasha is home to the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma.
The town/city is titled for, and firmly connected to Native American heritage, as "Chickasha" (Chikashsha) is the Choctaw word for Chickasaw.
One of the earliest industrialized plants to come to Chickasha was the Chickasha Cotton Oil Company, which was established in 1899. The town incorporated in 1902. In 1908, the Oklahoma Industrial Institute and College for Girls was established in Chickasha.
The school was retitled as the Oklahoma College for Women in 1916.
It became coeducational in 1965, and was retitled the Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts.
Chickasha is positioned west of the center of Grady County at 35 2 18 N 97 56 46 W (35.038431, -97.946021). The town/city is 42 miles (68 km) southwest of Oklahoma City, which is accessible via Interstate 44 (the H.
I-44 passes through the southeast side of the city, with access from Exits 80 and 83, and leads southwest 47 miles (76 km) to Lawton.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 22.1 square miles (57.2 km2), of which 0.04 square miles (0.1 km2), or 0.22%, is water. The Washita River flows through the northern end of the city, then turns south and forms part of the city's easterly border.
Climate data for Chickasha, Oklahoma As of the 2010 Census, there were 16,036 citizens , 6,374 homeholds, and 3,898 families residing in the city. From 2000 to 2010, the Chickasha town/city population expansion percentage was 1.2% (or from 15,850 citizens to 16,036 citizens ).
Chickasha has an propel mayor and town/city council, with a town/city manager on its staff. The city's annual Festival of Light takes place at the 43-acre (170,000 m2) Shannon Springs Park and opens eveningly from around Thanksgiving to the end of December.
The Festival of Light has received many prestigious awards over the years including Regional Event of the Year, A.B.A.
Top 100 Event, National Top 25 Holiday Event, Festival of the Year, Best Community Festival Event and Best Place to Take Out of Town Visitors.
The festival has been featured statewide on Discover Oklahoma, ranked as a Top Place to Visit by Fine Living Network (2004), and designated as an official 2007 Oklahoma Centennial Event.
The University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma hosts an annual festival, the Spring Triad, which is made up of the Montmartre Chalk Art Festival, the Droverstock music festival, and the Scholastic Meet. The event is held annually on the first Thursday of April. The art festival is held around the USAO Oval, where over 700 artists compete in a chalk art contest. Droverstock features over 12 hours of live music from various bands of all styles and genres. There are also many vendors, inflatables, and activities associated with the festival. The Scholastic Meet attracts around 1000 students annually from over 50 Oklahoma counties who compete in academic disciplines such as math, science, music, history, and other subjects. The competition is the biggest academic meet in the state.
In 2003, the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma created The Davis-Waldorf Performing Arts Series (DWPAS) to memorialize USAO professors Louise Waldorf and Frances Davis, honoring their love for the arts through the annual presentation of affairs on the USAO campus.
Through this series, they encourage students to make attendance at performing arts affairs part of their college experience and introduce appreciation of the arts as part of a fulfilling life.
This series, supported in part by the Oklahoma Arts Council, serves Chickasha by presenting professional, high-quality, diverse arts affairs in ground venues that furnish seating for hundreds of guests.
The Muscle Car Ranch positioned on the south edge of Chickasha hosts an annual swap meet and concert, which is held in August.
From a small small-town swapmeet, the Chickasha Pre-war Swap Meet has evolved to be one of the momentous swapmeets for owners and collectors of cars from before 1942 (World War II).
According to various posts in the forum of the Model T Club of America, the Chickasha Pre-war Swap Meet is considered the best Ford Model T swapmeet in the US. Chickasha Public School District includes Chickasha High School, Chickasha Middle School, Lincoln Elementary, Grand Elementary, and the Bill Wallace Early Childhood Center. Chickasha is the current locale of a historic schoolhouse that served black kids in Grady County.
Verden Separate School was assembled by African American Allen Toles on his own property in the close-by town of Verden in 1910. The school directed until 1935. The school building was rediscovered by historians in 2004 and restored and relocated to Chickasha. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. Verden Separate School in Chickasha The University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, Oklahoma's enhance liberal arts college, is positioned in Chickasha.
It was established in 1908 by the Oklahoma State Legislature as Oklahoma Industrial Institute and College for Girls. The school's name was officially changed to Oklahoma College for Women in 1916. In 1965, the school became coeducational, and its name was changed to Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts. The school is presently known as the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma.
Mary Frances Thompson (Te Ata Fisher), Chickasaw actress; attended USAO in Chickasha a b "American Fact - Finder".
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