City of Oklahoma City From top left to clockwise: Downtown skyline, Sky - Dance Pedestrian Bridge, City Hall, Gold Star Memorial Building, Chesapeake Energy Arena, Oklahoma City National Memorial, state capitol.
From top left to clockwise: Downtown skyline, Sky - Dance Pedestrian Bridge, City Hall, Gold Star Memorial Building, Chesapeake Energy Arena, Oklahoma City National Memorial, state capitol.
Location in Oklahoma County and the state of Oklahoma.
Location in Oklahoma County and the state of Oklahoma.
Oklahoma City is positioned in the US Oklahoma City - Oklahoma City Website City of Oklahoma City Oklahoma City is the capital and biggest city of the U.S.
The governmental center of county of Oklahoma County, the town/city ranks 27th among United States metros/cities in population.
The populace interval following the 2010 Census, with the populace estimated to have increased to 631,346 as of July 2015. As of 2015, the Oklahoma City urbane region had a populace of 1,358,452, and the Oklahoma City-Shawnee Combined Travel Destination had a populace of 1,459,758 (Chamber of Commerce) residents, making it Oklahoma's biggest urbane area.
Oklahoma City's town/city limits extend into Canadian, Cleveland, and Pottawatomie counties, though much of those areas outside of the core Oklahoma County region are suburban or non-urban (watershed).
The town/city ranks as the eighth-largest town/city in the United States by territory area (including merged city-counties; it is the biggest city in the United States by territory area after Houston whose government is not merged with that of a county or borough).
Oklahoma City has the biggest municipal populace of any town/city in the Great Plains region of the central United States as well as all neighboring states to Oklahoma, excluding Texas and Colorado.
Lying in the Great Plains region, Oklahoma City features one of the biggest livestock markets in the world. Oil, natural gas, oil products and related industries are the biggest zone of the small-town economy.
Oklahoma City is on the I-35 Corridor, which is one of the major travel corridors south into neighboring Texas and Mexico and north towards Wichita and Kansas City.
Since the time weather records have been kept, Oklahoma City has been hit by thirteen strong tornadoes; eleven of these tornadoes were rated F4 or EF4 on the Fujita and Enhanced Fujita scales, and two were rated F5 or EF5. Main articles: History of Oklahoma City and Timeline of Oklahoma City Oklahoma City was settled on April 22, 1889, when the region known as the "Unassigned Lands" was opened for settlement in an event known as "The Land Run". Some 10,000 homesteaders settled the region that would turn into the capital of Oklahoma.
By the time Oklahoma was admitted to the Union in 1907, Oklahoma City had surpassed Guthrie, the territorial capital, as the populace center and commercial core of the new state.
Soon after, the capital was moved from Guthrie to Oklahoma City. Oklahoma City was a primary stop on Route 66 amid the early part of the 20th century; it was prominently mentioned in Bobby Troup's 1946 jazz classic, "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66", later made famous by artist Nat King Cole.
Before World War II, Oklahoma City advanced major stockyards, attracting jobs and revenue formerly in Chicago and Omaha, Nebraska.
With the 1928 discernment of petroleum within the town/city limits (including under the State Capitol), Oklahoma City became a primary center of petroleum production. Post-war expansion accompanied the assembly of the Interstate Highway System, which made Oklahoma City a primary interchange as the convergence of I-35, I-40 and I-44.
Patience Latting was propel Mayor of Oklahoma City in 1971, becoming the city's first female mayor. Latting was also the first woman to serve as mayor of a U.S.
Oklahoma City National Memorial at Christmas.
As with many other American cities, center town/city population declined in the 1970s and 1980s as families followed newly constructed highways to move to newer housing in close-by suburbs.
In 1993, the town/city passed a massive redevelopment package known as the Metropolitan Area Projects (MAPS), intended to rebuild the city's core with civic projects to establish more activities and life to downtown.
Residents of Oklahoma City suffered substantial losses on April 19, 1995 when Timothy Mc - Veigh detonated a bomb in front of the Murrah building.
The building was finished (the remnants of which had to be imploded in a controlled demolition later that year), more than 100 close-by buildings suffered harsh damage, and 168 citizens were killed. The site has been memorialized as the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum. Since its opening in 2000, over three million citizens have visited .
Oklahoma City lies in the Sandstone Hills region of Oklahoma, known for hills of 250 to 400 feet (120 m) and two species of oak: blackjack oak (Quercus marilandica) and post oak (Q.
The town/city is roughly bisected by the North Canadian River (recently retitled the Oklahoma River inside town/city limits).
The North Canadian once had sufficient flow to flood every year, wreaking destruction on encircling areas, including the central company precinct and the initial Oklahoma City Zoo. In the 1940s, a dam was assembled on the river to manage the flood control and reduced its level. In the 1990s, as part of the citywide revitalization universal known as MAPS, the town/city assembled a series of low-water dams, returning water to the portion of the river flowing near downtown. The town/city has three large lakes: Lake Hefner and Lake Overholser, in the northwestern quarter of the city; and the largest, Lake Stanley Draper, in the sparsely populated far southeast portion of the city.
The populace density normally reported for Oklahoma City using the region of its town/city limits can be misleading.
Its urbanized zone covers roughly 244 sq mi (630 km2) resulting in a density of 2,500 per square mile (2013 est), compared with larger non-urban watershed areas incorporated by the city, which cover the remaining 377 sq mi (980 km2) of the town/city limits. Oklahoma City is one of the biggest cities in the country in compliance with the Clean Air Act. Main article: List of tallest buildings in Oklahoma City Looking up in the heart of Oklahoma City's Central Business District.
Oklahoma City neighborhoods are extremely varied; pin-neat well-to-do historic neighborhoods sit next to districts that have not wholly recovered from economic and civil diminish of the 1970s and 1980s.
The town/city is bisected geographically and culturally by the North Canadian River, which basically divides North Oklahoma City and South Oklahoma City.
The two-halves of the town/city were actually established and plotted as separate cities, but soon interval together.
South Oklahoma City is generally more blue collar working class and decidedly more industrial, having grown up around the Stockyards and meat packing plants at the turn of the century, and is presently the center of the city's quickly growing Latino community.
Downtown Oklahoma City, which has 7,600 residents, is presently seeing an influx of new private investment and large scale enhance works projects, which have helped to resuscitate a central company precinct left almost deserted by the Oil Bust of the early 1980s.
Oklahoma City has a very active harsh weather season from March through June, especially amid April and May.
The Oklahoma City urbane region is one of the most tornado-prone primary cities in the world, with about 150 tornadoes striking inside the town/city limits since 1890.
Since the time weather records have been kept, Oklahoma City has been hit by thirteen violent tornadoes, eleven F/EF4s and two F/EF5s. On May 3, 1999, parts of Oklahoma City and encircling communities were impacted by a tornado.
While the tornado was in the vicinity of Bridge Creek to the southwest, wind speeds of 318 mph (510 km/h) were estimated by a mobile Doppler radar, the highest wind speeds ever recorded on Earth. A second top-of-the-scale tornado occurred on May 20, 2013; South Oklahoma City, along with Newcastle and Moore, was hit by an EF5 tornado.
The tornado was 0.5 to 1.3 miles (0.80 to 2.09 km) wide and killed 23 citizens . On May 31, severaler than two weeks after the May 20 event, another outbreak affected the Oklahoma City area.
Within Oklahoma City, the fitness spawned an EF1 and an EF0 tornado, and in El Reno to the west, an EF3 tornado occurred.
This lattermost tornado, which was heading in the direction of Oklahoma City before it dissipated, had a width of 2.6 miles (4.2 km), making it the widest tornado ever recorded.
Oklahoma City has experienced momentous population increases since the late 1990s.
The 2015 estimate of 631,346 is the biggest population Oklahoma City has ever recorded.
It is the first town/city in the state to record a populace greater than 600,000 inhabitants and the biggest municipal populace of the Great Plains region (Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota).
Oklahoma City is the principal town/city of the eight-county Oklahoma City Metropolitan Travel Destination in Central Oklahoma and is the state's biggest urbanized area.
Law enforcement claims that Oklahoma City has traditionally been the territory of the notorious Juarez Cartel, but the Sinaloa Cartel has been reported as trying to establish a foothold in Oklahoma City.
There are many rival gangs in Oklahoma City, one whose command posts has been established in the city, the Southside Locos, traditionally known as Surenos. The economy of Oklahoma City, once just a county-wide power center of government and energy exploration, has since diversified to include the sectors of knowledge technology, services, community services and administration.
6 City of Oklahoma City (SEAT) 3,000 and over Other primary corporations with a large existence (over 1000 employees) in the town/city of Oklahoma City include: Dell, The Hertz Corporation, United Parcel Service, Farmers Insurance Group, Great Plains Coca-Cola Bottling Company, Cox Communications, The Boeing Company, Deaconess Hospital, Johnson Controls, Mid - First Bank, American Fidelity Assurance, Rose State College, and Continental Resources. While not in the town/city limits, other large employers inside the Oklahoma City MSA include: United States Air Force Tinker AFB (27,000); University of Oklahoma (11,900); University of Central Oklahoma (2,900); and Norman Regional Hospital (2,800). According to the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce, the urbane area's economic output interval by 33 percent between 2001 and 2005 due chiefly to economic diversification.
In 2008, Forbes periodical titled Oklahoma City the most "recession proof town/city in America".
The periodical reported that the town/city had falling unemployment, one of the strongest housing markets in the nation and solid expansion in energy, agriculture and manufacturing. However, amid the early 1980s, Oklahoma City had one of the worst job and housing markets due to the bankruptcy of Penn Square Bank in 1982 and then the post-1985 crash in petroleum prices (oil bust). Business and entertainment districts (and to a lesser extent small-town neighborhoods) tend to maintain their boundaries and character through the application of zoning regulations and company enhancement districts (districts where property owners agree to a property tax surcharge to support additional services for the community). Through zoning regulations, historic districts, and other special zoning districts, including overlay districts, are well established. Oklahoma City presently has three company enhancement districts, including one encompassing the central company district.
Water taxis in Oklahoma City's downtown Bricktown neighborhood.
Reynolds Visual Arts Center is the new downtown home for the Oklahoma City Museum of Art.
OKCMOA is also home to the most elected compilation of Chihuly glass in the world including the 55-foot Eleanor Blake Kirkpatrick Memorial Tower in the Museum's atrium. The art deco Civic Center Music Hall, which was totally renovated in 2001, has performances from the Oklahoma City Ballet, the Oklahoma City Opera, the Oklahoma City Philharmonic and also various concerts and traveling Broadway shows.
The Survivor Tree on the grounds of the Oklahoma City National Memorial.
Other theaters include Lyric Theatre, Jewel Box Theatre, Kirkpatrick Auditorium, the Poteet Theatre, the Oklahoma City Community College Bruce Owen Theater and the 488-seat Petree Recital Hall, at the Oklahoma City University campus.
The Oklahoma City National Memorial in the northern part of Oklahoma City's downtown was created as the inscription on its easterly gate of the Memorial reads, "to honor the victims, survivors, rescuers, and all who were changed forever on April 19, 1995"; the memorial was assembled on the territory formerly occupied by the Alfred P.
The Oklahoma History Center is the history exhibition of the state of Oklahoma.
Located athwart the street from the governor's mansion at 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive in northeast Oklahoma City, the exhibition opened in 2005 and is directed by the Oklahoma Historical Society.
Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, home of the Oklahoma City Dodgers and the Big 12 Baseball Tournament.
Oklahoma City is home to a several experienced sports teams, including the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association.
The Thunder is the city's second "permanent" primary experienced sports charter after the now-defunct AFL Oklahoma Wranglers and is the third major-league team to call the town/city home when considering the temporary hosting of the New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets for the 2005 06 and 2006 07 NBA seasons.
Other experienced sports clubs in Oklahoma City include the Oklahoma City Dodgers, the Triple-A partner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Oklahoma City Energy FC of the United Soccer League, Rayo OKC of the North American Soccer League (NASL), and the Crusaders of Oklahoma Rugby Football Club of USA Rugby.
The Oklahoma City Blazers, a name used for decades of the city's hockey team in the Central Hockey League have been reborn as a Junior A team playing in the Western States Hockey League.
Chesapeake Energy Arena in downtown is the principal multipurpose arena in the town/city which hosts concerts, NHL exhibition games, and many of the city's pro sports teams.
In 2008, the Oklahoma City Thunder became the primary tenant.
The primary universities in the region University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City University, and Oklahoma State University often schedule primary basketball games and other sporting affairs at Chesapeake Energy Arena and Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, although most home games are played at their ground stadiums.
The state of Oklahoma hosts a highly competing high school football culture, with many squads in the Oklahoma City urbane area.
Oklahoma City region schools in this division include: Edmond North, Mustang, Moore, Yukon, Edmond Memorial, Edmond Santa Fe, Norman North, Westmoore, Southmoore, Putnam City North, Norman, Putnam City, Putnam City West, U.S.
Chesapeake Energy Arena, home of the NBA's Oklahoma City Thunder.
The Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association (NBA) has called Oklahoma City home since the 2008 09 season, when owner Clay Bennett relocated the charter from Seattle, Washington.
The Thunder plays home games at the Chesapeake Energy Arena in downtown Oklahoma City, known affectionately in the nationwide media as 'the Peake' and 'Loud City'.
After an arrival to Oklahoma City for the 2008 09 season, the Oklahoma City Thunder secured a berth (8th) in the 2010 NBA Playoffs the next year after boasting its first 50-win season, winning two games in the first round against the Los Angeles Lakers.
The team became the first NBA charter to play regular-season games in the state of Oklahoma. The team was known as the New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets while playing in Oklahoma City.
The Hornets played their final home game in Oklahoma City amid the exhibition season on October 9, 2007 against the Houston Rockets.
Oklahoma City Thunder Basketball National Basketball Association Chesapeake Energy Arena Oklahoma City Blue Basketball NBA Development League Cox Convention Center Oklahoma City Energy Men's Soccer United Soccer League (Div.
The Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden is home to various natural surroundings, WPA era architecture and landscaping, and hosts primary touring concerts amid the summer at its amphitheater.
Oklahoma City also has two amusement parks, Frontier City infamous park and White Water Bay water park.
Oklahoma City also has a combination racetrack and casino open year-round, Remington Park, which hosts both Quarter horse (March June) and Thoroughbred (August December) seasons.
Walking trails line Lake Hefner and Lake Overholser in the northwest part of the town/city and downtown at the canal and the Oklahoma River.
Oklahoma City has a primary park in each quadrant of the city, going back to the first parks masterplan.
Martin Park Nature Center is a natural surrounding in far northwest Oklahoma City.
Oklahoma City is home to the American Banjo Museum, which homes a large compilation of highly decorated banjos from the early 20th century and exhibits on the history of the banjo and its place in American history.
In April 2005, the Oklahoma City Skate Park at Wiley Post Park was retitled the Mat Hoffman Action Sports Park to recognize Mat Hoffman, an Oklahoma City region resident and businessman that was instrumental in the design of the skate park and is a 10-time BMX World Vert champion. In March 2009, the Mat Hoffman Action Sports Park was titled by the National Geographic Society Travel Guide as one of the "Ten Best." Oklahoma City Civic Center, including the art deco town/city hall building.
The City of Oklahoma City has directed under a council-manager form of town/city government since 1927. Mick Cornett serves as Mayor, having first been propel in 2004, and re-elected in 2006, 2010, and 2014.
Couch previously served as assistant town/city manager, Metropolitan Area Projects Plan (MAPS) director and utilities director before to his service as town/city manager.
The town/city has called on inhabitants to vote for revenue tax-based projects to revitalize parts of the city.
In September 2013, Oklahoma City region attorney David Slane announced that he would pursue legal action regarding MAPS3, on claims that the multiple projects that made up the plan violate a state constitutional law limiting voter ballot issues to a single subject. See also: List of Colleges and Universities in Oklahoma City OU Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City.
Oklahoma City University, formerly known as Epworth University, was established by the United Methodist Church on September 1, 1904 and is famous for its performing arts, science, mass communications, business, law, and athletic programs.
OCU has its chief campus in the north-central section of the city, near the city's chinatown area.
The University of Oklahoma has a several establishments of higher learning in the town/city and urbane area, with OU Medicine and the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center campuses positioned east of downtown in the Oklahoma Health Center district, and the chief campus positioned to the south in the suburb of Norman.
The third-largest college in the state, the University of Central Oklahoma, is positioned just north of the town/city in the suburb of Edmond.
Oklahoma Christian University, one of the state's private liberal arts establishments, is positioned just south of the Edmond border, inside the Oklahoma City limits. Oklahoma City Community College in south Oklahoma City is the second-largest improve college in the state.
Rose State College is positioned east of Oklahoma City in suburban Midwest City.
Oklahoma State University Oklahoma City is positioned in the "Furniture District" on the Westside.
Southern Nazarene University, which was established by the Church of the Nazarene, is a college located in suburban Bethany, which is surrounded by the Oklahoma City town/city limits.
Oklahoma City is home to the state's biggest school district, Oklahoma City Public Schools. The district's Classen School of Advanced Studies and Harding Charter Preparatory High School project high among enhance schools nationally as stated to a formula that looks at the number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate and/or Cambridge tests taken by the school's students divided by the number of graduating seniors. In addition, OKCPS's Belle Isle Enterprise Middle School was titled the top middle school in the state as stated to the Academic Performance Index, and recently received the Blue Ribbon School Award, in 2004 and again in 2011. KIPP Reach College Preparatory School in Oklahoma City received the 2012 National Blue Ribbon along with its school leader, Tracy Mc - Daniel Sr., being awarded the Terrel H.
The Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics, a school for some of the state's ted math and science pupils, is also positioned in Oklahoma City.
Due to Oklahoma City's explosive growth, parts of a several suburban districts spill into the city, including Putnam City School District in the northwest, Moore Public Schools in the south, and Mid-Del School District in the southeast.
Two prominent schools of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City include Bishop Mc - Guinness High School and Mount Saint Mary High School.
Oklahoma City has a several enhance longterm position and technology education schools associated with the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education, the biggest of which are Metro Technology Center and Francis Tuttle Technology Center.
Private longterm position and technology education schools in Oklahoma City include Oklahoma Technology Institute, Platt College, Vatterott College, and Heritage College.
The Dale Rogers Training Center in Oklahoma City is a nonprofit vocational training center for individuals with disabilities.
The Oklahoman is Oklahoma City's primary daily journal and is the most widely circulated in the state.
Oklahoma Gazette is Oklahoma City's autonomous newsweekly, featuring such staples as small-town commentary, feature stories, restaurant reviews and movie listings and music and entertainment.
The Journal Record is the city's daily company journal and okc - BIZ is a monthly printed announcement that covers company news affecting those who live and work in Central Oklahoma.
There are various improve and global newspapers locally that cater to the city's ethnic mosaic; such as The Black Chronicle, headquartered in the Eastside, the OK VIETIMES and Oklahoma Chinese Times, positioned in Asia District, and various Hispanic improve publications.
The Campus is the student journal at Oklahoma City University.
Oklahoma City was home to a several pioneers in radio and tv broadcasting.
Oklahoma City's WKY Radio was the first airways broadcast transmitting west of the Mississippi River and the third airways broadcast in the United States. WKY received its federal license in 1921 and has continually broadcast under the same call letters since 1922.
Broadcast tv networks have affiliates in the Oklahoma City market (ranked 41st for tv by Nielsen and 48th for radio by Arbitron, covering a 34-county region serving the central, northern-central and west-central sections Oklahoma); including NBC partner KFOR-TV (channel 4), ABC partner KOCO-TV (channel 5), CBS partner KWTV-DT (channel 9, the flagship of locally based Griffin Communications), PBS station KETA-TV (channel 13, the flagship of the state-run OETA member network), Fox partner KOKH-TV (channel 25), CW partner KOCB (channel 34), autonomous station KAUT-TV (channel 43), My - Network - TV partner KSBI-TV (channel 52), and Ion Television owned-and-operated station KOPX-TV (channel 62).
Even with the market's geographical size, none of the English-language commercial affiliates in the Oklahoma City designated market region operate full-power satellite stations covering the far northwestern part of the state (requiring cable or satellite to view them), though KFOR-TV, KOCO-TV, KWTV-DT and KOKH-TV each operate low-power translators in that portion of the market.
Oklahoma City is one of the several markets positioned between Chicago and Dallas to have affiliates of two or more of the primary Spanish-language broadcast networks: Telemundo partner KTUZ-TV (channel 30), Woodward-based Univision partner KUOK 35 (whose translator KUOK-CD, channel 36, serves the immediate Oklahoma City area), Azteca partner KOHC-CD (channel 45) and Estrella TV partner KOCY-LP (channel 48).
Oklahoma City is protected by the Oklahoma City Fire Department (OKCFD), which employs 1015 paid, experienced firefighters.
Oklahoma City is an integral point on the United States Interstate Network, with three primary interstate highways Interstate 35, Interstate 40, and Interstate 44 bisecting the city.
Interstate 240 joins Interstate 40 and Interstate 44 in south Oklahoma City, while Interstate 235 spurs from Interstate 44 in north-central Oklahoma City into downtown.
Major state expressways through the town/city include Lake Hefner Parkway (SH-74), the Kilpatrick Turnpike, Airport Road (SH-152), and Broadway Extension (US-77) which continues from I-235 connecting Central Oklahoma City to Edmond.
Lake Hefner Parkway runs through northwest Oklahoma City, while Airport Road runs through southwest Oklahoma City and leads to Will Rogers World Airport.
The Kilpatrick Turnpike loops around north and west Oklahoma City.
Oklahoma City also has a several major nationwide and state highways inside its town/city limits.
Gaylord Boulevard in downtown Oklahoma City and runs south eventually connecting to I-35 near the suburb of Moore, Oklahoma.
Northwest Expressway (Oklahoma State Highway 3) runs from North Classen Boulevard in north-central Oklahoma City to the northwestern suburbs.
Oklahoma City is traversed by the following primary expressways: Oklahoma City is served by two major airports, Will Rogers World Airport and the much lesser Wiley Post Airport (incidentally, the two honorees died in the same plane crash in Alaska) Will Rogers World Airport is the state's busiest commercial airport, with over 3.6 million passengers annually. Tinker Air Force Base, in southeast Oklahoma City, is the biggest military air depot in the nation; a primary maintenance and deployment facility for the Navy and the Air Force, and the second biggest military institution in the state (after Fort Sill in Lawton).
Oklahoma City once was the crossroads of a several interstate passenger barns s, but service at that level has long since been discontinued.
Greyhound and a several other intercity bus companies serve Oklahoma City at the Union Bus Station in downtown.
The town/city has recognized transit as a primary copy for the quickly growing and urbanizing town/city and has initiated a several studies in recent times to advancement upon the existing bus fitness starting with a plan known as the Fixed Guideway Study. This study identified a several potential commuter transit routes from the suburbs into downtown OKC as well as feeder-line bus and/or rail routes throughout the city.
Although Oklahoma City presently has no light-rail or commuter rail service, town/city residents identified improved transit as one of their top before ities and from the fruits of the Fixed Guideway and other studies town/city leaders firmly desire to incorporate urban rail transit into the region's future transit plans.
The greater Oklahoma City urbane transit plan identified from the Fixed Guideway Study includes streetcar in the downtown section that would be fed by enhanced town/city bus service and commuter rail from the suburbs including Edmond, Norman, and Midwest City.
There is a momentous push for a commuter rail line connecting downtown OKC with the easterly suburbs of Del City, Midwest City, and Tinker Air Force Base.
In addition to commuter rail, a short tradition rail line that would run from Bricktown just a several blocks away from the Amtrak station to the Adventure District in northeast Oklahoma City is presently under ongoing standard .
On December 2009, Oklahoma City voters passed MAPS 3, the $777 million (7-year 1-cent tax) initiative, which will include funding (appx $130 - M) for an estimated 5-to-6-mile (8.0 to 9.7 km) undivided streetcar in downtown Oklahoma City and the establishment of a transit hub.
Construction on the Oklahoma City Streetcar has begun and is scheduled to begin service in 2018.
This is the first ever grant for Oklahoma City for rail-based initiative and is thought to be somewhat of a turning point by town/city leaders who have previously applied for grants only to continuously be denied.
It is believed the town/city will use the TIGER grant along with approximately $10 - M from the MAPS 3 Transit budget to revitalize the city's Amtrak station becoming an Intermodal Transportation Hub, taking over the part of the existing transit core at NW 5th/Hudson Ave.
A 2013 study by Walk Score ranked Oklahoma City 43rd most walkable out of the 50 biggest U.S.
Oklahoma City and the encircling urbane region are home to a number of community care facilities and specialty hospitals.
In Oklahoma City's Mid - Town precinct near downtown resides the state's earliest and biggest single site hospital, St.
OU Medicine operates Oklahoma's only level-one trauma center at the OU Medical Center and the state's only level-one trauma center for kids at Children's Hospital at OU Medicine, both of which are positioned in the Oklahoma Health Center district.
INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
The Midwest Regional Medical Center positioned in the suburb of Midwest City; other primary hospitals in the town/city include the Oklahoma Heart Hospital and the Mercy Health Center.
In the American College of Sports Medicine's annual ranking of the United States' 50 most crowded urbane areas on the basis of improve health, Oklahoma City took last place in 2010, falling five places from its 2009 project of 45. The ACSM's report, presented as part of its American Fitness Index program, cited, among other things, the poor diet of residents, low levels of physical fitness, higher incidences of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease than the nationwide average, low access to recreational facilities like swimming pools and baseball diamonds, the paucity of parks and low investment by the town/city in their development, the high percentage of homeholds below the poverty level, and the lack of state-mandated physical education curriculum as contributing factors. Oklahoma City has seven sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International: Official records for Oklahoma City were kept at the Weather Bureau Office from November 1890 to December 1953, and at Will Rogers World Airport since January 1954.
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