Pryor Creek, Oklahoma "Pryor Creek"
Pryor Creek, Oklahoma Location of Pryor Creek inside Oklahoma Location of Pryor Creek inside Oklahoma Pryor Creek, more generally known as Pryor, is a town/city in and governmental center of county of Mayes County, Oklahoma, United States. The populace was 8,659 at the 2000 census, compared to 9,539 in the 2010 census. Originally titled Coo-Y-Yah, Cherokee for Huckleberry, it was retitled Pryor Creek in 1887, the name of the small-town barns station (named for the creek).
Due to confusion in distinguishing handwritten mailing addresses to Pryor Creek and Pond Creek, the U.S.
Postal Service name for the town/city was shortened to Pryor, though the official name of the town/city remains Pryor Creek. Main article: History of Pryor Creek In the early 1800s, treaties with the Cherokee, Osage, and Choctaw gave the tribes allotments in Indian Territory in the region that would turn into Oklahoma. Captain Nathaniel Hale Pryor, who was married to an Osage woman and served as an agent to the Osage citizens , was among those settling northeastern Oklahoma. He established a trading post on Grand River, shortly before the Union Mission was established 5 miles southeast of present-day Chouteau in 1820. On April 23, 1887, Coo-y-yah was changed to Pryor Creek, but the "Creek" was dropped by the postal service on January 26, 1909.[The official name of the town/city government is still Pryor Creek despite a proposition put before voters in 1963 to change the name. Aftermath of the Tornado that hit Pryor Creek on April 27, 1942 On April 27, 1942, a tornado swept along Pryor Creek's chief street from the edge of the company precinct to the easterly edge of the city, destroying nearly every building and causing extensive damage to the residentiary section.
Talala, which was not hit, is about 30 miles (48 km) northwest of Pryor Creek.
The Pryor tornado rates as the fifth deadliest in Oklahoma history behind tornadoes at Woodward in 1947, Snyder in 1905, Peggs in 1920, and Antlers in 1945.
Pryor Creek is positioned at 36 18 30 N 95 19 1 W ( 36.3084275, -95.3169136 ). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 6.5 square miles (16.9 km ), of which, 6.5 square miles (16.8 km ) of it is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km ) of it (0.31%) is water.
As of the 2010 census Pryor Creek had a populace of 9,539.
Pryor Creek is also home to Northeast Technology Center-Pryor and Pryor Beauty College. Rogers State University has a branch ground in Pryor. According to the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, manufacturing employs about 40 percent of the city's workforce.
Pryor Creek is home of Catch the Fever Music Festivals, which is host to Rocklahoma, just 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Pryor Creek.
Pryor also has five town/city parks, Whitaker, Centennial, Roosevelt, Bobby Buck, Earl Ward, as well as a softball & baseball complex.
Pryor is also just a several miles away from Lake Hudson, Grand Lake and Ft.
Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) details for Pryor, Oklahoma; United States Geological Survey (USGS); October 13, 1978.
Mayor's Office; Pryor Creek government.
Pryor Daily Times, "Mayes County Grows by 3,000." Tilly, "Pryor Creek," Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture.
"Pryor, Nathaniel," Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture.
Amanda Carney, "Mayes County, Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture.
Pryor, Oklahoma.
"Pryor Creek tornado disaster," New York Times, April 28, 1942.
2010 general profile of populace and housing characteristics of Pryor Creek at [factfinder2.census.gov/ American Fact - Finder] (accessed August 5, 2013) Area - Vibes.com - Pryor Creek - Education (accessed August 5, 2013) "Small-town Pryor getting some big hits".
Kyle Arnold, Google reboots data site in Pryor, Tulsa World, October 22, 2010.
Robert Evatt, Google plugs in data center in Pryor, Tulsa World, September 30, 2011 City of Pryor History of Pryor County seat: Pryor Creek Pryor Creek
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