Ponca City, Oklahoma Ponca City, Oklahoma Veteran's Day Parade down Grand Avenue in front of the Ponca City Civic Center and Town Hall Veteran's Day Parade down Grand Avenue in front of the Ponca City Civic Center and Town Hall Location of Ponca City, Oklahoma Location of Ponca City, Oklahoma Ponca City is a town/city in Kay County and in Osage County in the U.S.
State of Oklahoma, which was titled after the Ponca Tribe.
Ponca City had a populace of 25,387 at the time of the 2010 census.
Ponca City was established after the United States opened the Cherokee Outlet for European-American settlement in the Cherokee Strip territory run, the biggest land run in United States history.
Ponca City was created in 1893 as New Ponca after the United States opened the Cherokee Outlet for European-American settlement amid the Cherokee Strip territory run, the biggest land run in United States history. The site for Ponca City was chose for its adjacency to the Arkansas River and the existence of a fresh water spring near the river.
The town/city was laid out by Burton Barnes, who drew up the first survey of the town/city and sold certificates for the lots he had surveyed.
After the drawing for lots in the town/city was completed, Barnes was propel the city's first mayor. Another city, Cross, vied with Ponca City to turn into the dominant town/city in the area.
After the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway had opened a station in Cross, citizens thought it would not open another in Ponca City because of the two cities' proximity. New Ponca boosters eventually secured a station after offering the Santa Fe station agent two town lots and the no-charge relocation of his home from Cross. Ponca City reportedly obtained its first boxcar station by some Ponca City supporters going to Cross and returning with the town's station pulled behind them. Cross eventually became defunct.
In 1913 New Ponca changed its name to Ponca City. Ponca City's history and economy has been shaped chiefly by the ebb and flow of the oil industry.
Marland, a Pennsylvania petroleum man, came to Oklahoma and established the Marland Oil Company, which once controlled approximately 10 percent of the world's petroleum reserves. He established the 101 Ranch Oil Company, positioned on the Miller Brothers 101 Ranch, and drilled his first prosperous oil well on territory which he leased in 1911 from the Ponca Tribe of American Indians. He was propel in 1932 as a U.S.
Marland's exploitation of petroleum reserves generated expansion and richness that were previously unimaginable on the Oklahoma prairie, and his business virtually assembled the town/city from the ground up. Marland and his associates assembled mansions to display their new wealth, including the Grand Home and the E.W.
Marland Estate (once called the Palace on the Prairie.) Because of this reconstructionof richness and affluence, Ponca City has a high concentration of buildings that exemplify the prominent Spanish Colonial Revival architecture of the period, as well as art deco-influenced buildings and homes.
The "Roaring 20s" came to an end for Ponca City shortly before the Great Depression.
The business maintained its command posts in Ponca City until 1949 and continued to expanded into a global corporation.
During the petroleum boom years of the 1980s, Conoco was owned by the Du - Pont Corp., which took control of the business in 1981. After nearly two decades of ownership and an petroleum bust that crippled Oklahoma's economy in the late 1980s, Du - Pont sold off its Conoco assets in 1998. In 2002, Conoco had consolidated with Phillips Petroleum (another primary oil player with roots in northern Oklahoma) to turn into Conoco - Phillips. Conoco - Phillips was then the sixth-largest publicly interchanged petroleum business in the world, and the third biggest in the United States. It maintains a momentous existence in its historic home state.
Since the business has reduced its workforce and facilities in the city, the populace has declined steadily since the early 1990s.
In February 2009, Conoco - Phillips announced that all of its remaining non-refinery operations in Ponca City (representing 750 jobs) would be moved out of the city. The city's recent accomplishments to expanded its economy beyond the oil trade have thriving a number of technology, manufacturing and service jobs. In 2005, Conoco - Phillips announced plans to build a $5 million exhibition athwart from its Ponca City refinery.
A sister exhibition, Phillips Petroleum Company Museum, will be opened in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
Based in Houston, Texas, Phillips66 continues to operate a 200 thousand barrel per day refinery in Ponca City.
The statue of Standing Bear honors the Ponca chief who successfully argued in U.S.
Until recently, European Americans' accounts of their settlement and the expansion of the petroleum trade in Ponca City have often overshadowed both the long ancient history of indigenous citizens s in the area, as well as those tribes who were resettled to Oklahoma in the nineteenth century under Indian Removal.
The long history of the area's Native American populace and its influences on the culture and history of the town/city and its environs.
Ponca City is titled after the Ponca Tribe, part of which was relocated from Nebraska to northern Oklahoma from 1877 to 1880.
Like all of the forced American Indian removals of the 19th century, the Poncas' trek was arduous.
"Out of 700 Ponca who left the Nebraska reservation, 158 died in Oklahoma inside two years." A statue was erected in his honor at the intersection of Highway 60 and Standing Bear Parkway in Ponca City.
In the late twentieth century, the town/city developed a park and exhibition, titled in his honor. The Ponca Nation, which has kept its command posts south of Ponca City since 1879, played a primary part in the evolution of the Marland Oil Co.
Since the late 20th century, the Ponca Tribe has worked to build its transit framework and advancement services for its citizens .
These are all federally recognized tribes, as is the Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma.
They wanted to build collaboration among the tribes and with the non-Native inhabitants of Ponca City.
The pow-wow is now held in Standing Bear Park, which was titled in honor of the notable Ponca chief. Ponca City is positioned at 36 42 45 N 97 4 21 W (36.712422, -97.072431).
Ponca City lies on approximately 18.1 square miles (46.9 km2) of land, and also has approximately 1.2 sq mi (3.1 km2) of water, for a total region of 19.3 square miles (50.0 km2).
Ponca City is positioned in north central Oklahoma, it lies approximately 18 miles (29 km) south of the Kansas border, and approximately 15 miles (24 km) east of Interstate 35.
The town/city is near the Arkansas River, the Salt Fork of the Arkansas River, Kaw Lake, and Lake Ponca, which all furnish various recreational opportunities.
Ponca town/city The Ponca City region of Oklahoma is part of tornado alley.
The photo shows a historic photo of a classic wide tornado funnel taken near Ponca City between 1890 and 1920.
Ponca City faces very hot and humid summers known to average over 100 F as well as harsh storms.
During the winters, Ponca City consists of mostly mild to strong winters with snowstorms and ice.
Climate data for Ponca City Regional Airport (KPNC) The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 84.18% White, 2.99% African American, 6.27% Native American, 0.70% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 2.08% from other competitions, and 3.75% from two or more competitions.
Marland assembled the Ponca City refinery in 1918 and established the Marland Oil Company.
The Conoco command posts were in Ponca City until 1949, when it moved to Houston, Texas.
And Phillips Petroleum Company, whose command posts were in close-by Bartlesville, Oklahoma consolidated into Conoco - Phillips. In 2012 Conoco - Phillips split into two separate companies, with the upstream portion retaining the Conoco - Phillips name and the refining and transit portions taking the name Phillips66.
The Ponca City Refinery, directed by Phillips66, is the biggest refinery in the state of Oklahoma.
The Ponca City Refinery processes a mixture of light, medium and heavy crude oils.
Ponca City hosted minor league baseball from the 1920s through the 1950s.
The Ponca City Poncans played from 1923 26, the Ponca City Angels played from 1934 1938 (winning three Western Association championships) and the Ponca City Dodgers (an partner of the Brooklyn Dodgers) directed from 1947 1952, Finally, the Ponca City Jets played in the Sooner State League in 1954, only to be replaced by a new club called the Ponca City Cubs in 1955, the last season of pro baseball in Ponca City.
Ponca Tribe Headquarters Ponca City is home to a several landmarks on the National Register of Historic Places including the Poncan Theatre, the Marland Mansion and Marland's Grand Home.
Ponca City also holds a several county-wide affairs each year.
Ponca City is the site of the Pioneer Woman Museum and the Pioneer Woman statue.
Statue to the vanishing American, a Ponca, Otoe, or an Osage - a monument of great size?" They were displayed in twelve metros/cities around the state, where they were viewed by 750,000 citizens who voted for their favorite.
Ponca City Schools Logo Ponca City Public Schools serves the general population's education requirements.
Ponca City Public Schools serves over 5100 students.
Ponca City High School (Po-Hi) - serves all 9th through 12th undertaking students in the school district.
Sponsoring the Ponca City Wild - Cat logo, with new shifts from the Ombudsman and past alternative schools.
East Middle School - East Middle School serves Ponca City's approximately 380 8th undertaking students in the Ponca City Public School system.
Ponca City has presently eight elementary schools to serve the district's Pre-K through 5th undertaking students: Ponca City has three private schools that serve students from pre-K through 8th grade: Ponca City Christian Academy University Learning Center offers interactive tv (ITV) classes from a several area universities, including Northern Oklahoma College, Oklahoma State University and The University of Oklahoma Ponca City is the command posts for Oklahoma State University's University Multispectral Laboratory.
The Ponca City region receives electricity powered hydro-electrically at Kaw Lake, a United States Army Corps of Engineers project.
The facility, positioned seven miles (11 km) east of Ponca City, dams the Arkansas River.
The town/city is served by the Ponca City Regional Airport (PNC), and is accessible by US-60, US-77, US-177, OK-11, and I-35.
Ponca City Regional Airport (airport code PNC) (1007 feet above mean sea level) is positioned at the northwest corner of the town/city at 36 degrees 43.84 north latitude and 97 degrees 05.99 west longitude.
Ponca City was one of the recording locations for 1996 movie Twister. In the cartoon series The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, Bullwinkle is said to have relatives in Ponca City. In an episode of The Rockford Files, James Garner, a native Oklahoman, mentions Ponca City.
Marland is expected to be in manufacturing to shoot in Ponca City, titled The Ends of the Earth.
Louis Seymour Barnes, "The Founding of Ponca City", Chronicles of Oklahoma 35 (Summer 1957).
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"Oklahoma: Population and Housing Unit Counts" (PDF).
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"City Hall Self-Guided Tour".
Ponca City Web Site.
Ponca City Publishing Company.
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