Stillwater, Oklahoma Stillwater, Oklahoma Stillwater is a town/city in north east Oklahoma at the intersection of US-177 and State Highway 51.
It is the governmental center of county of Payne County, Oklahoma, United States.
As of 2012, the town/city population was estimated to be 46,560, making it the tenth biggest city in Oklahoma.
Stillwater is the principal town/city of the Stillwater Micropolitan Travel Destination which had a populace of 78,399 as stated to the 2012 census estimate.
Stillwater was part of the first Oklahoma Land Run held April 22, 1889, when the Unassigned Lands were opened for settlement and became the core of the new Oklahoma Territory.
The town/city charter was adopted on August 24 later that year. Stillwater is home to the chief campus of Oklahoma State University, as well as a branch of Northern Oklahoma College, Meridian Technology Center, and the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education.
The city's biggest employer is Oklahoma State University.
The town/city is home to the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum and the NCAA Division I Oklahoma State Cowboys and Cowgirls.
Payne walked up to Stillwater Creek and said, "This town should be titled Still Water".
On April 22, 1889, the cannons fired signaling the first Land Run that opened up the Unassigned Lands of the Oklahoma Territory, which encompassed Stillwater.
By the end of the day, 240 acres (0.97 km2) had been claimed and designated as Stillwater township and a tent town/city with a populace numbering 300 had sprung up on the prairie. The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture simply says that the name officiallybecame Stillwater only when the postal service opened on May 28, 1889. On Christmas Eve, 1890, the council of Oklahoma Territory passed a bill certifying Stillwater as the territory grant college site.
In 1894, Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College held a dedication of its first brick building, Assembly Building, later known as Old Central. Between 1889 and statehood, Stillwater grew.
By statehood in 1907, downtown Stillwater was home to more than 50 buildings including a several banks, churches, grocery stores, hotels, and department stores.
The first journal was the Stillwater Gazette; telephone and gas service appeared in 1899; and the Eastern Oklahoma Railroad appeared in 1900. They succeeded in creating 12 training units that involved bringing nearly 40,000 service men and women to Stillwater.
Quonset huts were dotted athwart town and barracks occupied the site where Stillwater Medical Center and the Career - Tech command posts are now.
The City of Stillwater operates under a council-manager government system, in which an propel town/city council is responsible for making policy, passing ordinances and approving the city's budget.
The town/city council meets the first and third Monday of the month in the Council Room at the Stillwater Municipal Building, 723 S.
Stillwater does not have town/city council districts; instead, it has general elections every year.
The City of Stillwater employs approximately 500 citizens .
Stillwater's 2009 crime rate for serious crimes (UCR Part 1) was 3657 per 100,000 inhabitants compared to the 2009 nationwide crime rate of 3466 per crimes per 100,000 inhabitants (FBI 2009 Crime in the United States).
Stillwater is positioned in districts 33 and 34 of the Oklahoma State House of Representatives and is represented by Republican Lee Denney in the 33rd precinct and Democrat Cory Williams in the 34th district. In the Oklahoma State Senate, Stillwater is in the 21st precinct and is represented by Republican James Halligan. In the United States House of Representatives, Stillwater is represented by Republican Frank Lucas, of the third precinct in Oklahoma. In the U.S.
Stillwater is positioned 60 miles (97 km) north-northeast of downtown Oklahoma City and 63 miles (101 km) directly west of downtown Tulsa by road.
Climate data for Stillwater, Oklahoma Stillwater is home to a diverse mix of company and industry, from manufacturing to advanced technology.
Oklahoma State University plays a momentous part of Stillwater's overall economy with more than 20,000 students, 5,500 personnel and a focus on research and technology.
Stillwater Medical Center 1200 Stillwater Public Schools 822 City of Stillwater 520 Stillwater National Bank 300 It is adjoining to Oklahoma State University where University Avenue and Washington Street intersect.
See also: Oklahoma State University - Stillwater Oklahoma State University - Stillwater is listed by the Princeton Review as one of 120 "Best Western Colleges" for 2014, and as one of 75 "Best Value Colleges Public" for 2013.
In 2003, Northern Oklahoma College added a ground in Stillwater.
Stillwater is home to the Meridian Technology Center and also the state agency that oversees longterm position technology schools in Oklahoma, the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education.
Stillwater Public Schools is the city's only enhance school district.
The precinct includes Highland Park, Richmond, Sangre Ridge, Skyline, Westwood and Will Rogers elementary schools; Stillwater High School; Lincoln Academy (Alternative Education); Stillwater Middle School; and Stillwater Junior High.
Inside the Stillwater Public Library Stillwater has been served by the Stillwater Public Library since 1922.
In 1990, Stillwater voters passed a $4.98 million bond copy for the assembly of a new enhance library at 1107 S.
The Stillwater Public Library provides a core collections of more than 100,000 volumes and includes books, audio books, music CDs, DVDs, videos magazines and newspapers as well as technological services.
The Edmon Low Library at Oklahoma State University homes approximately 3 million volumes, 190,000 government documents, 70,000 electronic and print serials.
Stillwater ground branch libraries include the Architecture Library, Curriculum Materials Library, Veterinary Medicine Library, Electronic Publishing Center and the Library Annex.
Stillwater is known as the home of red dirt music, a mixture of folk, country, blues and rock, and its hometown heroes Cross Canadian Ragweed, Jason Boland and the Stragglers, the Red Dirt Rangers, The Great Divide, No Justice, Jenny Labow, the Jason Savory Band, and the grandfather of red dirt, Bob Childers.
Stillwater hosts a several performing arts series, including performances at the City of Stillwater Community Center, the Town and Gown Community Theater and OSU's Allied Arts held in the Seretean Center on the OSU-Stillwater campus. Stillwater is served by a several voluntary organizations dedicated to providing entertainment and cultural experiences: the Stillwater Community Singers, the Stillwater Community Band and Stillwater Jazz. Stillwater is home to a number of annual celebrations and improve affairs held throughout the year.
Spring kicks off with the Stillwater Public Education Foundation's A Taste of Stillwater, a fundraiser held each March. Other affairs include the Stillwater Elks BBQ Blaze-a-thon, Tumbleweed Calf Fry and Oklahoma Special Olympics' Annual Summer Games.
For years, Stillwater has played host to the Special Olympics Oklahoma in May when thousands of athletes and hundreds of volunteers gather for three days of competition and Olympic-style ceremonies.
This is the biggest amateur sporting event in Oklahoma, and the biggest Special Olympics event in the U.S. Also held in the spring is the Stillwater Home Builders Association's Home and Garden Show, and the Remember the 10 Run. The Stillwater Arts Festival is now in its third decade.
In summer there is the Krazy Daze Shopping Extravaganza and the Payne County Fair. For Independence Day, Stillwater hosts the annual Boomer Blast fireworks show at Boomer Lake Park. The Stillwater Farmers' Market is held April through October on Wednesdays and Saturdays. The fall season begins Collegefest, OSU Student Government Association's Lights on Stillwater, a trade-show style event held on the OSU Library lawn where students learn about small-town restaurants, shops and services, and the Downtown Stillwater Car Show. The annual Downtown Stillwater Halloween Festival is held the Tuesday before Halloween and includes a costume contest. Each year more than 70,000 alumni and friends return to ground and participate in a parade. For more than twenty years, the Eskimo Joe's Juke Joint Jog 5 - K and Fun Run has been held in the fall to benefit the Stillwater Area United Way. The Sheerar Museum of Stillwater History is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and interpreting the history of Stillwater.
The exhibition features exhibits about Stillwater and Payne County, including the first territory run that opened Oklahoma Territory for settlement in 1889.
The Sheerar Museum of Stillwater History also offers a range of temporary exhibits and programs that change on an annual basis. The National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum is also positioned in Stillwater.
In October 2013, Oklahoma State University opened the OSU Museum of Art in the renovated Postal Plaza, a former WPA-built Federal Post Office in Downtown Stillwater.
The college began collecting art in the 1930s, an endeavor initiated by former head of the OSU Art Department, Doel Reed. The college also operates the Gardiner Art Gallery on ground in the Bartlett Center for the Visual Arts, home of the OSU Art Department.
The facility, positioned west of Stillwater on State Highway 51, also has a Japanese Tea Ceremony Garden. International Friendship Garden is positioned at the City of Stillwater Community Center and was assembled in 1997 by the Kameoka Landscape Gardeners Association to jubilate the program's Tenth Anniversary Celebration.
The gardeners purchased and shipped 22 tons of materials, tools and supplies to Stillwater, and over a two-week reconstructionthey constructed a traditional Japanese garden.
They also assembled a small tea garden at the Oklahoma Botanical Garden at Oklahoma State University.
The Stillwater Public Library dedicated a bronze statue of Oklahoma historian/author Angie Debo on November 18, 2010.
To highlight Debo's importance to Oklahoma's Native American Tribes, the base of the statue is surrounded by the seals of Oklahoma's 38 federally recognized Native American Tribes. Stillwater is home to the Original Hideaway Pizza, Oklahoma's earliest pizzeria. The following Stillwater sites are listed on the National Register of Historic Places: Stillwater's journal of record is the News - Press, owned by the Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc. The improve is also served by the weekly Stillwater Journal, owned and presented by David and Lisa Sasser. The Daily O'Collegian has been presented since 1895 as a daily paper by Oklahoma State University and is an partner of the College Media Network.
Stillwater is also home to a several airways broadcasts, including Stillwater Radio that broadcasts on four stations: KSPI 780 AM, 80's, 90's and 2000's Rock; KSPI 94.3 FM, 80's, 90's and 2000's Rock; KVRO 101.1 FM, classic hits and home of Stillwater High School sports; KGFY 105.5 FM, nation music and the home of Perkins-Tryon High School sports (in close-by Perkins, OK), and OSU women's basketball, soccer, and softball ; and KSPI 93.7 FM, adult contemporary, and the home of OSU football, baseball, men's basketball, and wrestling. KOSU 91.7 FM is owned by Oklahoma State University and is a nationwide enhance airways broadcast (NPR). White Peacock Publishing prints Stillwater Living Magazine, a full-color monthly magazine. Stillwater Scene, presented by Red Productions, is a monthly print and online periodical that focuses on small-town entertainment. Stillwater TV is a government-access tv station airing on Suddenlink Communications's channel 14.
It broadcasts programming provided by the City of Stillwater, including live and rebroadcasts of Stillwater City Council and Planning Commission meetings. As a college town, Stillwater is home to the Oklahoma State Cowboys and Cowgirls.
Stillwater High School is a 6 - A-2 school.
The City of Stillwater Parks and Recreation Department manages more than 5,000 acres (20 km2) of parkland, including five ball complexes, ten tennis courts, two disc golf courses, four lakes, one swimming pool, 14 playgrounds, one skate and bmx bike ramp, special services centers, including the Multi Arts Center, Senior Activity Center, Community Center, Armory Gymnasium and Lakeside Golf Course.
Lake Mc - Murtry, owned by the City of Stillwater, offers hiking and mountain-bike trails, back-to-nature camping and well-stocked reserves for fishing.
The Kameoka Trail Corridor includes a three-mile (5 km) loop around Boomer Lake and additional disconnected segments throughout the city. The corridor begins north at Park View Estates and runs along West Boomer Creek toward Airport Road and Boomer Lake Park, circles the lake and cuts south to Stillwater High School, crosses Mc - Elroy and continues to Hall of Fame between Main and Perkins and crosses through Hoyt Grove Park. Stillwater has two highways running through it: Oklahoma State Highway 51, or 6th Avenue, runs east and west; and US-177, or Perkins Road, runs north and south.
Stillwater Regional Airport (SWO) has served the town/city since 1917.
Ten bus routes are directed inside the Stillwater's town/city limits and on the OSU campus. A portion of the Utility Authority's revenues help to support the City of Stillwater's fire and police departments, the parks and recreation system, and other town/city services.
Stillwater Medical Center Stillwater Medical Center is a 119-bed non-profit enhance trust facility.
Services offered by the hospital include emergency, wound care, workforce and bringy, surgery, radiology, rehabilitation, cancer care, and wellness. Like many medical facilities in Stillwater, a high portion of physicians at SMC are not M.D.'s.
The improve is also served by the Stillwater Surgery Center, an outpatient surgery center, and the Stillwater Cancer Center, a physician-owned cancer treatment center.
The Payne County Health Department is also positioned in Stillwater and offers services such as WIC, consumer protection, community promotion, and chronic and acute disease services. Business Insider titled Stillwater the best town/city in Oklahoma to buy a home. USA Today College titled Stillwater one of the 25 best small college suburbs in the country. Stillwater was titled the smartest town/city in Oklahoma by Only in Your State. Stillwater ranked as one of the top 100 best places to live in the U.S.
Stillwater was titled one of the safest metros/cities in Oklahoma in 2016 by Background - Checks.org. Stillwater was titled one of the top 10 best metros/cities in Oklahoma to retire by Only in Your State. In 2015, TIME Inc./Money Magazine titled Stillwater as one of the top 25 places to retire in the United States In 2014, USA Today recognized Stillwater's annual Halloween Festival as one of the 10 Best Halloween Costume Parties. Movoto titled Stillwater as one of the 10 happiest small places in America in 2014. Movoto Real Estate recognized Stillwater as the most exciting place in Oklahoma in 2014. In 2014, the USA Today recognized Stillwater one of nine metros/cities with the quickest burgeoning income between 2010-2012.
Stillwater saw a expansion of 8% from 2006 to 2009 as the populace of Stillwater and encircling improve rose from 73,818 to 79,727.
CNN/Money Magazine rated Stillwater, OK, #67 on its top 100 places to live list for 2010. Stillwater is a member of Tree City USA. Stillwater has been sister town/city to Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, since 1985.
Kameoka requested a sister town/city in Oklahoma that was about one hour from the capital, agriculturally based, and home to a university.
In 1985, the first delegation from Kameoka visited Stillwater, and in November of that same year a Stillwater delegation went to Kameoka.
Anthony and Yoshihisa Taniguchi signed the Sister City Affiliation Agreement that officially established the sister metros/cities relationship the two cities.
Since 1989, the Stillwater Middle School and Taisei Junior High School in Kameoka have participated in a sister school relationship, which features an active teacher-student exchange program. Best Places to Live: Money's List of America's Best Small Cities, CNN Money Magazine, August 2010.
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