Claremore, Oklahoma Claremore, Oklahoma Downtown Claremore Location in the state of Oklahoma Location in the state of Oklahoma Claremore, Oklahoma is positioned in the US Claremore, Oklahoma - Claremore, Oklahoma State Oklahoma Claremore is a town/city and the governmental center of county of Rogers County, Oklahoma, United States. The populace was 18,581 at the 2010 census, a 17.1 percent increase from 15,873 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area and home to Rogers State University.
The Will Rogers Memorial overlooks Claremore's position in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains.
Around 1802, a band of Osage Indians settled in the region of present-day Claremore.
After the Indian Removal Act of 1830 was passed by the United States, Claremore became part of Indian Territory and the Cherokee Nation.
Claremore was a part of the Cooweescoowee District in the northwestern part of the Cherokee Nation.
Clem Rogers, father of the famous Will Rogers, who, along with his family, is buried at the Will Rogers Memorial, moved to the county in 1856.
His ranch, known as Dog Iron Ranch eventually was more than 60,000 acres (240 km2), and his home, which still stands outside Oologah, is an meaningful historical site. Clem Rogers was a primary promote of Oklahoma statehood and was the earliest delegate to the state's Constitutional Convention in 1907 at age 69.
Another primary factor in the expansion of Claremore was an region known as "Radium Town".
In 1903, a man titled George Eaton owned an petroleum business in Claremore.
He had moved his family to Claremore region in 1874, where his principal businesses were farming and cattle raising.
He was drilling just to the east of Claremore and hit an underground pool of water that smelled of sulfur.
Eaton then assembled a bath home and promoted this evolution as Radium Town. Bath homes sprang up all over this region of Claremore, but only one is still standing today.
Claremore's first hospital was established on Will Rogers Boulevard, or Oklahoma State Highway 20, in the early 1900s.
Claremore's newspaper, the Claremore Daily Progress, was established in 1893 by cowboy Joe Klein and is still presented daily.
There are many historic homes and other buildings in Claremore, including the old company district.
In 2002, Claremore's historic core received a stone grant from the state's Oklahoma Main Street program.
Is set in Claremore and the encircling area, in 1906 (the year before Oklahoma became a State).
The movie Where the Heart Is starring Natalie Portman and Ashley Judd fictionally portrays Rogers County and the region surrounding Claremore.
Claremore is positioned at 36 18 55 N 95 36 46 W (36.315181, -95.612784). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 12.3 square miles (32 km2), of which, 12.0 square miles (31 km2) of it is territory and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km2) of it (1.96%) is water.
The town/city is positioned in Green Country, a prominent nickname for northeast Oklahoma that stems from the region's green vegetation and mostly high amount of hills and lakes compared to central and areas of Oklahoma. Claremore lies near the Verdigris River with undulating terrain producing hills and valleys.
The city's major water sources are Claremore and Oologah Lake, both inside the drainage watershed of the Verdigris River.
Climate data for Claremore, Oklahoma Downtown Claremore The town/city is also intersected by State Highway 88 and State Highway 20.
Louis-San Francisco Railway or "Frisco" (now controlled by BNSF), intersect in Claremore.
Stratton Taylor Library at Rogers State University.
Claremore is home to the chief campus of Rogers State University, a bachelor's and associate's degree-granting state institution.
Claremore is also home to Northeast Technology Center, a vocational training ground which serves over 200 students and offers both full-time and short-term classes. Public school districts serving Claremore are the Claremore Independent School District and Sequoyah Public Schools.
CISD presently consists of Claremore High School, Will Rogers Junior High, Catalayah Elementary, Westside Elementary, Claremont Elementary, Stuart Roosa Elementary, and the Alternative Learning Center. Sequoyah Public Schools consists of Sequoyah High School, Sequoyah Junior High School, and Sequoyah Elementary School. The first school in the Claremore region was opened to students in 1870.
Claremore's first primary high school was assembled in 1919 and was the most expensive enhance school building in the state of Oklahoma at the time.
Baker Hughes has a large existence in the town, along with a several other large companies in Claremore Industrial Park, which is only a several miles away from the Tulsa Port of Catoosa on the Mc - Clellan Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System (Verdigris River and Arkansas River).
Claremore has a prominent website called more - Claremore.com, which focuses on positive improve journalism.
Claremore's daily journal (and one of the earliest ongoing businesses in the county) is the Claremore Daily Progress, first presented as a weekly in 1892 and as a daily in 1893. Claremore Auto Dealership - now called "Claremore Tire," an old auto dealer in the central company precinct Eastern University Preparatory School - administration building of Rogers State University Maurice Meyer Barracks - a building on the ground of Rogers State University, contains OMA Museum Will Rogers Hotel - a hotel in downtown Claremore, now renovated for usage as apartements for senior people Dog Iron Ranch was consolidated with the Will Rogers Memorial Library in 2016; both are now managed by the Oklahoma State Historical Society. United States Enumeration Bureau.
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"Will Rogers Memorial Commission Transferred To Oklahoma Historical Society." [Radium-Town-the-smell-of-success/print "Radium Town, the smell of success"], Claremore Daily Progress, March 22, 2008.
"Historical Weather for Claremore, Oklahoma, United States".
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Lynn Riggs: An Oklahoma Treasure, Friends of Libraries in Oklahoma "Russian group treated to Claremore hospitality while on Sister City trip", Claremore Daily Progress, October 30, 2011.
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