Durant, Oklahoma Durant, Oklahoma Main street durant Official seal of Durant, Oklahoma Location inside the state of Oklahoma Location inside the state of Oklahoma Durant, Oklahoma is positioned in the US Durant, Oklahoma - Durant, Oklahoma Durant is a town/city in Bryan County, Oklahoma, United States and serves as the capital of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.
The populace was 15,856 at the 2010 census. Durant is the principal town/city of the Durant Micropolitan Statistical Area, which had a populace of 42,416 in 2010.
Durant rates as the second biggest city inside the Choctaw Nation, following Mc - Alester, and ahead of Poteau.
Durant is also part of the Dallas-Fort Worth Combined Statistical Area, anchoring the northern edge. The town/city was established by Dixon Durant, a Choctaw who lived in the area, after the MK&T barns came through the Indian Territory in the early 1870s.
Durant is home to Southeastern Oklahoma State University and the command posts of the Choctaw Nation.
The Durant region was once claimed by both Spain and France before officially becoming part of the United States after the Louisiana Purchase and Adams Onis Treaty.
Pierre Durant and his four sons, all of French-Choctaw origin, made the journey up the Trail of Tears on the way to the southeastern part of the Choctaw Nation in 1832.
One son, Fisher, married to a full-blood Choctaw, found a beautiful locale for a home between Durant's present Eighth and Ninth avenues.
Fisher Durant's son Dixon Durant is recognized as the founder of Durant and is honored as its namesake.
He established the first store selling general merchandise in 1873, around the time of the 1872 creation of the Missouri Kansas Texas Railroad (Katy Railroad) siding at Durant, which was the initial impetus for establishing the community. The first postal service at the site was known as Durant Station, opening on February 20, 1879, and method on July 11, 1881. A.E.
Postal Service re-established the postal service at the site as Durant on March 8, 1882, dropping the word "station" from the name. Durant City Hall Durant is positioned in southern Oklahoma, in a region titled Texoma, or Texomaland, because of its short distance from Lake Texoma.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city of Durant has a total region of 26.8 square miles (69.3 km2), of which 26.7 square miles (69.2 km2) is territory and 0.077 square miles (0.2 km2), or 0.24%, is water. Climate data for Durant, Oklahoma Durant's first census was recorded in 1900, and the populace was 2,969.
The 2000 census reported Durant's populace as 13,549.
Durant was ranked as the quickest burgeoning rural town/city in Oklahoma in 2004, having the quickest expansion rate outside of the Oklahoma City and Tulsa urbane areas. Durant's daytime populace increases to approximately 20,000 citizens . The town/city has a pull factor of 1.8 2.1 times its populace and was titled an All-American City finalist for 2006. Since 1999, the Durant Economic Development Department, the Durant Industrial Authority and the City of Durant have advanced over $600,000,000 in new investments to the city. Durant presently leads the state in economic development. One of the city's strongest industries is tourism; attractions include Lake Texoma, the Choctaw Casino Resort, Choctaw Casino Bingo and Fort Washita.
The biggest employer in Durant is the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, including the Choctaw Nation Headquarters and the Choctaw Casino Resort, which has two Choctaw Travel Plazas, two Choctaw casinos, the Choctaw Inn, and more facilities that are positioned in the resort.
Over 5,400 citizens work for the Choctaw Nation in Durant.
Although the capital of the Choctaw Nation is recognized as being Tuskahoma, the administrative offices are positioned in Durant.
In 1894, Calvin Institute, a school for Native American youths, was established in Durant.
It was retitled Durant Presbyterian College in 1900 and Oklahoma Presbyterian College in 1910.
The support for the school came from the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, the federal government, and a several denominational missionary boards.
In 1976, in cooperation with the Durant Chamber of Commerce and the owners of the buildings, the Red River Valley Historical Association, title was transferred to the federal government.
Another meaningful part of Durant's economy is the city's historic central company precinct and the retail district.
In the past several years, downtown Durant has seen growth, renewal projects such as streetscaping, and new businesses arriving.
Durant is part of the Main Street Program.
70, and is Durant's quickest burgeoning area.
The investment of $122,000,000 is the biggest single investment ever made in Durant and Bryan County. The $80,000,000 investment is the second biggest ever for Durant and Bryan county. Durant is home to the command posts of First United Bank, one of the biggest privately owned banks in the United States, and First Texoma National Bank.
Indian Nation Wholesale, also headquartered in Durant, was the 15th biggest wholesaler in the United States as of 2008. Smaller grocery stores in Durant include Green Spray, Save-A-Lot, and Nichol's Dollar Saver.
The festival is put on by the Durant Chamber of Commerce and Durant Main Street Program the weekend following Memorial Day.
Durant has a "World's Largest Peanut" monument, a title it shares with two other monuments in Texas and Ashburn, Georgia.
This monument to the peanut growers in Bryan County is positioned on the front lawn of Durant's town/city hall.
Opened in 1976, it is titled for a book about Durant, Queen of the Three Valleys by Henry Mc - Creary, which references the city's locale in the middle of the Red, Blue River, and Washita River valleys.
The Oklahoma Shakespearean Festival is homed on the ground of Southeastern Oklahoma State University.
It has made Durant and Southeastern Oklahoma State University a destination for tourists, experienced and aspiring actors and theatre artisans. Although there is no primary sports team positioned in Durant, there are sporting opportunities positioned inside the city, including the Durant Multi-Sports Complex, golf, soccer fields and baseball fields.
The Durant Multi-Sports Complex is an athletic facility positioned two miles (3 km) southeast of Durant, on Highway 78.
The City of Durant maintains and operates 11 parks totaling more than 251 acres (1.02 km2).
Durant Multi-Sports Complex Dixon Durant Park formerly Northside Park, or Rocket Park, retitled with respect to the founder of Durant.
Less than 10 miles (16 km) away, Lake Texoma has between 8 10 million visitors every year and is the 12th biggest lake in the United States, and also one of the biggest reservoirs in the country, contributing to Durant's economic and populace growth.
Main article: Southeastern Oklahoma State University Durant is home to Southeastern Oklahoma State University, which has about 5,200 enrolled students.
Southeastern Oklahoma State University offers degrees through its Aviation Sciences Institute, the biggest aviation program in the state.
The chief campus in Durant has facilities at the airport to support flight training and facilities on ground to facilitate the management options in business, maintenance, safety, and security.
Southeastern Oklahoma State University also offers a doctoral degree, Ed.D., in Applied Educational Studies with the Aviation and Space Science specialization and a Graduate Certificate in Aviation Security. Durant is home to the Kiamichi Technology Center, which has eight other locations in southeastern Oklahoma.
See also: Durant Independent School District The Durant Independent School District is the biggest school precinct in southeastern Oklahoma and serves approximately 3,100 students. The precinct includes six schools and includes preschool, major and secondary education.
The town/city is also home to the Silo School District, which includes three schools and serves approximately 680 students, and to one of two schools in the Rock Creek School District. Durant is served by a daily newspaper, The Durant Daily Democrat.
No tv studios are positioned in the city, but it receives over the air reception from the Sherman-Ada DMA, which happens to have studios in Sherman and Denison, Texas, with branch studios in Ardmore, Oklahoma.
On August 26, 2016, Ryan Nazari, an Oklahoma City Thunder fan, created a petition to change the city's name to "Westbrook" because Kevin Durant left the team for the Golden State Warriors that received 1,999 supporters. Durant Public Schools 24-hour station which usually only airs slide shows KLBC, 106.3 FM, "Today's Best Country", the top-rated Oklahoma airways broadcast in the Sherman/Ada DMA and the most listened-to airways broadcast in southeastern Oklahoma, as stated to a 2008 Arbitron Rating survey Northbound Highway 69/75 in Durant The highway then enters Durant from the south.
After its at-grade intersection with Choctaw Road, it again upgrades to a freeway, passing through and northern Durant, and again downgrades to a four-lane divided highway at the Bryan-Atoka County line.
Highway 70 enters Durant from the east as a two-lane highway as Mulberry Street, crossing a Union Pacific barns via a bridge.
Oklahoma State Highway 78.svg SH 78 A north-south route.
SH 78 enters Durant from the south as Southeast 3rd Avenue and as a two-lane.
In a 2006 study by the Oklahoma Department of Transportation, an average of about 19,100 vehicles pass Durant's Main Street on U.S.
The primary streets are First Avenue, Southeast 3rd Avenue, South 9th Avenue, Washington Avenue, Radio Road, University Place, 49th Avenue, Choctaw Road, Rodeo Road, West Main Street, East Main Street, University Boulevard, Chuckwa Street, Gail Farrell Drive, and Mockingbird Lane.
There are four exits in Durant from U.S.
69/75 and Choctaw Road south of Durant, where the Choctaw Casino Resort is located.
Durant Regional Airport Eaker Field, the city's airport, and home to Southeastern Oklahoma State University's Aviation Sciences Institute, was a U.S.
The closest global airports to Durant are Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City.
Durant is served by a city-owned water plant and sewage treatment center.
The town/city of Durant, along with southeastern Oklahoma and north Texas, is served by the Medical Center of Southeastern Oklahoma.
MCSO is at the heart of Durant's medical district, along with the Durant Medical Complex, Choctaw/Chickasaw Indian Clinic, dentist offices, community clubs, and other medical establishments.
Detail from the 2013 Bonnie & Clyde miniseries in which the title characters are wanted for crimes committed in Durant, Oklahoma.
All About Steve - In the 2009 film, Sandra Bullock's character, Mary Horowitz, tells her friends "...if I had a car, I could drive through Durant, Oklahoma, where they have the world's biggest peanut." Criminal Minds - In the 2011 episode "Proof," the team of investigators are led to a case in Durant involving two young women who were found murdered and sexually assaulted. While set in Durant, the manufacturing never actually filmed any material there.
Bonnie & Clyde - In this 2013 mini-series, Durant, Oklahoma is referenced in a journal article that appears on screen.
Durant has had the honor to be recognized on a nationwide scale on various occasions, regarding famous visitations or other attention.
On April 5, 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt appeared in Durant on a train, and gave a speech, using the rear of the train as his platform. He later revisited the improve in 1910, staying in the downtown Bryan Hotel, while on a hunting trip in the area. On July 15, 2015, President Barack Obama visited the town/city to address the country from Durant High School on his "Promised Zone" initiative. In 2014, the President designated five areas in the United States as Promised Zones, including the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.
In August 2016, Durant found itself at the unlikely center of controversy after an online petition was created by a citizen of Edmond, Oklahoma suggesting that Durant should be forced to change its name to Westbrook with respect to Russell Westbrook, after Kevin Durant's unpopular departure from the Oklahoma City Thunder.
"Ladies and gentleman, the great state of Oklahoma has been betrayed...It is because of this heinous action that I believe the State of Oklahoma has a responsibility to change the name of the City of Durant to Westbrook, the man who is loyal, whom we believe in, and who will lead our team to glory.
Yes, it is understood that the town/city Durant was not titled after the evil Kevin Durant, but it is just another hideous reminder of what happened," the petition read.
In December 2016, Durant attained national consideration again.
See also: List of Southeastern Oklahoma State University notable citizens Brett Butler, A experienced baseball player, attended Southeastern Oklahoma State University Mike Christian (Oklahoma State Representative) attended University of Oklahoma Although a Tulsa native, she was an English professor at Southeastern Oklahoma State University in Durant.
Reba Mc - Entire, a Grammy award-winning singer and actress attended Southeastern Oklahoma State University Dennis Rodman, a experienced basketball player attended Southeastern Oklahoma State University Williams, first Chief Justice of Oklahoma Supreme Court, third governor of Oklahoma, United States precinct and appellate judge a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Durant city, Oklahoma".
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