Owasso, Oklahoma Owasso, Oklahoma Owasso City Hall Owasso City Hall Location of inside Tulsa County, and the state of Oklahoma Location of inside Tulsa County, and the state of Oklahoma Owasso, Oklahoma is positioned in the US Owasso, Oklahoma - Owasso, Oklahoma Owasso is a town/city in Rogers and Tulsa Counties in the U.S.
State of Oklahoma, and a northern suburb of Tulsa.
The populace was 28,915 at the 2010 census. Originally settled in 1881 in Indian Territory, the town incorporated in 1904 just before to Oklahoma statehood and was chartered as a town/city in 1972.
Owasso began as a settlement in 1881, positioned in the Cooweescoowee District of the Cherokee Nation in Indian Territory, near what is now 66th Street North and North 129th East Avenue.
It was called Elm Creek, and was titled for Elm Creek, a tributary of Bird Creek.
In 1897, the Kansas, Oklahoma Central & Southwestern Railway Company acquired right-of-way about 3 miles (4.8 km) northwest of the Elm Creek settlement, dammed a natural spring to form a lake as a waterworks for the rail line, and assembled a depot about a mile south of the lake.
During 1898, many of the inhabitants and businesses moved from the Elm Creek settlement to the new community.
As the territory around the end of this barns developed, the Osage Indian word Owasso, meaning "the end of the trail" or "turn around", was adopted to identify the region because the rail line ended in a turnaround "Y" near the depot.
The name of the Elm Creek postal service was officially changed to Owasso on January 24, 1900.
The north/south streets were titled Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri, and the east/west streets north of what is now Broadway were titled for Union generals, while the east/west streets to the south were titled for Confederate generals.
These names were later changed; east/west streets are now identified by street numbers, and north/south streets are now titled after trees.
By the time Oklahoma became a state on November 16, 1907, Owasso had a populace of 379 inside the town limits.
Until the first water fortress was erected in 1924, with Spavinaw as the water source, water came into town in barrels from the Owasso Lake and sold for $0.50 a barrel.
Owasso incorporated as a town/city on September 28, 1972. Owasso is a northern suburb of Tulsa, Oklahoma, positioned in the northeastern corner of Oklahoma known as "Green Country" for its green vegetation, hills, and lakes, which contrast the drier Great Plains region of central and Oklahoma.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 16.31 square miles (42.2 km2), 99.9% of which is land, the remainder being veiled by water.
In the city, the populace was distributed as 33.1% under the age of 18, 7.6% from 18 to 24, 33.7% from 25 to 44, 17.2% from 45 to 64, and 8.4% who were 65 years of age or older.
About 7.6% of the populace was below the poverty line. Of the city's populace over the age of 25, 30.8% holds a bachelor's degree or higher.
Owasso's newspapers, the Owasso Reporter and the Owasso Progress, are both presented weekly.
On Tuesday, April 21, 2015, the Tulsa World announced that its parent business BH Media, a division of Berkshire Hathaway, the Omaha-based investment holding business led by billionaire Warren Buffett, had purchased a several suburban newspapers, including the Owasso Reporter. Owasso became a bedroom improve in the 1950s for Tulsa, which was only 12 miles (19 km) away.
As Tulsa expanded, so did trade around Owasso, stimulating further growth.
Randy Brogdon, former Oklahoma State Senator and former mayor of Owasso The movie The Outsiders has the old Owasso High School (currently the Owasso 7th Grade Center) in the background.
Another scene shows downtown Owasso (Main Street) in the background.
Tulsa City-County Library Website: "Tulsa Area History: Tulsa County Communities" Accessed April 9, 2011. Archived March 24, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
Mc - Donough and Marcia Boutwell, "Owasso" Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture.
Owasso, Oklahoma, Weatherbase.com.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Number of Inhabitants: Oklahoma" (PDF).
"Oklahoma: Population and Housing Unit Counts" (PDF).
"Incorporated Places and Minor Civil Divisions Datasets: Subcounty Population Estimates: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2012".
Owasso (city) Quick - Facts from the US Enumeration Bureau Brandy Mc - Donnell, "Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood moving from Oklahoma to Nashville", The Oklahoman, March 19, 2014.
Municipalities and communities of Rogers County, Oklahoma, United States Municipalities and communities of Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States
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