Woodward, Oklahoma Woodward, Oklahoma Location of Woodward, Oklahoma Location of Woodward, Oklahoma Woodward, Oklahoma is positioned in the US Woodward, Oklahoma - Woodward, Oklahoma County Woodward Woodward is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Woodward County, Oklahoma, United States. It is the biggest city in a nine-county area. The populace was 12,051 at the 2010 census.
As an meaningful cattle town, it had the rough frontier bawdiness of the time. The United States opened up much of the region to European-American settlement by the Land Run of 1893 and migrants rushed into the area.
After statehood, in 1911 Woodward was established as a court town for the US District Court of Oklahoma.
Boiling Springs, near present-day Woodward, was a favorite campsite of the Plains Indians.
In April 1887, the Southern Kansas Railway, a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, assembled tracks from Kiowa, Kansas to Fort Reno Military Road near the south bank of the North Canadian River. European-American pioneer established Woodward at this junction.
Woodward, usually identified as a Santa Fe Railway director, or bison hunter, teamster, and eventually small-town saddle-maker Richard "Uncle Dick" Woodward.
Woodward ranked among the most meaningful depots in the Oklahoma Territory for shipping cattle to the Eastern and Northern states.
The Great Western Cattle Trail met the barns where Woodward developed.
Since territorial days, Woodward served as the governmental center of county of Woodward County.
East Woodward, called Denver, began near the improvements, and Woodward began near the territory office.
In October 1894, citizens moved the depot west and relocated it between Fifth Street and Sixth Street; East Woodward businesses followed the depot.
Like Dodge City, Kansas, to the North, Woodward boasted a cattle town array of saloons, gambling halls, and brothels.
Drovers widely knew Equity, Midway, Shamrock, and Cabinet saloons of Woodward and the Dew Drop Inn as their watering holes at the end of a cattle drive.
In 1894, Temple Lea Houston, former Texas state senator and son of Samuel Houston, moved his law practice and family to Woodward.
Authorities in Woodward charged and tried Houston for murder, but a jury acquitted him on grounds of self-defense.
Temple Lea Houston died in 1905 (and is buried) in Woodward.
Woodward ranked as one of the most extensive cattle shipping points in Oklahoma Territory.
When open range ended in 1901, however, homesteaders rushed into Woodward County.
On 7 September 1907, William Jennings Bryan spoke to twenty thousand citizens gathered in Woodward, urging the ratification of proposed state constitution of Oklahoma and the election of a Democratic Party ticket.
Two months later, President Theodore Roosevelt, signed the act of Congress proclaiming admission of Oklahoma as a state with the quill from an American golden eagle, captured near Woodward.
Population of Woodward exceeded two thousand at statehood of 1907.
An Act of Congress in 1911 designated Woodward a court town for the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma.
The Wichita Falls and Northwestern Railway constructed a rail line through Woodward County and Woodward in 1911/1912; the Missouri Kansas Texas Railroad later acquired this line.
People introduced successfully Hereford cattle in Woodward County.
With this development, cattlemen, such as William Thomas Waggoner, attempted to lease school lands in Woodward County for grazing.
These attempts led Woodward County ranchers to form the Oklahoma Livestock Association.
Marum, the former law partner of Temple Lea Houston, in 1912 the United States government positioned an agricultural research station in Woodward.
People constructed Woodward Federal Courthouse and Post Office in Woodward in 1918, and it opened in 1921.
The ranching and cattle industries still dominated economy of Woodward.
This facility served as a playground for trade region of Woodward and home for the Elks Rodeo.
On 23 February 1933, the Woodward Livestock Auction, the first commercial-grade cattle auction in Oklahoma, opened, keeping the cattle-marketing tradition.
On 13 September 1934, Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh made an unexpected emergency landing 23 miles (37 km) northeast of Woodward.
Early in 1956, Charles Woodward Pappe, an entrepreneur from Kingfisher, Oklahoma, met Troy Smith (businessman) while visiting friends in Shawnee, Oklahoma.
In late November 1956, citizens first identified natural gas in Woodward County at Mc - Cormick Number One well; a two-decade boom of petroleum and gas manufacturing ensued.
On January 14, 1957, United States Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson accompanied President Dwight David Eisenhower in a 12 miles (19 km) inspection tour of drought-damaged lands around Woodward.
One of the biggest deposits of iodine in the world underlies many portions of Woodward County.
These companies include Woodward Iodine and Deepwater Chemicals, positioned in Woodward.
As beef cattle again dominated the territory and with the new goal of reestablishing grassy pastures, in 1978, United States Department of Agriculture retitled its facility the Southern Plains Range Research Station.
National Register of Historic Places listings in Woodward County, Oklahoma, in 1988 added Woodward Crystal Beach Park.
Various small-town attractions include the Plains Indians and Pioneers Museum in Woodward.
On April 9, 1947, the deadliest tornado in Oklahoma history (an F5 on the Fujita Scale) tore through Woodward, killing 107 citizens , injuring almost 1000, and destroying 100 town/city blocks.
The family of tornadoes, known as the 1947 Glazier Higgins Woodward tornadoes, ranked as the sixth deadliest in US history.
On April 14, 2012, an EF3 tornado hit Woodward causing six deaths. Woodward is positioned in northwestern Oklahoma, on the easterly edge of the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles. Its geographic coordinates are 36 25 59 N 99 23 52 W (36.433059, -99.397745) and its altitude is 1,906 feet (581 meters).
The town/city lies on the North Canadian River, 100 miles (160 km) east-southeast of Guymon, Oklahoma and 85 miles (137 km) west of Enid, Oklahoma. As the biggest city in an region of nine counties, it is a commercial core in northwestern Oklahoma.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 13.2 square miles (34 km2), of which 13.1 square miles (34 km2) is territory and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) (0.53%) is water.
Climate data for Woodward, Oklahoma Woodward is the principal center of trade for Northwest Oklahoma and a ten-county region including counties in Kansas and Texas.
Woodward serves as a market and refining center for wheat, cattle, hay and poultry.
Woodward also lies in an petroleum and natural-gas region on the shelf of Oklahoma's Anadarko Basin.
In 1956, natural gas was identified in Woodward County.
Thereafter, Woodward appreciateed momentous growth due to the opening and locale of petroleum field service and drilling companies in Woodward.
In addition to hydrocarbons, many portions of Woodward County are underlain by one of the world's biggest deposits of iodine.
Since 1977, various companies have explored for and produced crude iodine in Woodward County.
Woodward Iodine and Deepwater Chemicals are positioned in Woodward.
In 2003, Florida Power & Light Company's subsidiary, FPL Energy, and the Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority, began commercial manufacturing of electricity generated from wind turbines constructed seven miles (11 km) north of Woodward.
Boiling Springs State Park lies to the east of Woodward.
Woodward is the corporate command posts for Beaver Express Service, L.L.C., Oklahoma's biggest and earliest Oklahoma-based small package express and LTL motor freight carrier.
Beaver Express serves the states of Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Missouri, and Texas.
By the early 20th century, Hereford cattle were introduced successfully in Woodward County.
Waggoner, attempted to lease school lands in Woodward County for grazing.
These attempts led to the formation of the Oklahoma Livestock Association by Woodward County ranchers.
Marum, the former law partner of Temple Lea Houston, in 1912 the United States government positioned an agricultural research station in Woodward. By 1930, the ranching and cattle trade dominated Woodward's economy.
On February 23, 1933, Oklahoma's first commercial-grade cattle auction, the Woodward Livestock Auction, opened in Woodward.
In 1929, Woodward ranchers and businessmen organized the Woodward Elks Rodeo, which through 1959 was one of the premier cowboy rodeos in the nation.
National rodeo champions such as Bob Crosby, Paul Carney, Toots Mansfield, Homer Pettigrew, Ace Soward, Eddie Curtis, Jess Goodspeed, Ike Rude, Jim Shoulder, Sonny Davis, Sonny Linger, and Tater Decker all competed at the Woodward Elks Rodeo.
On May 18, 1956, Charles Woodward Pappe, an entrepreneur from Kingfisher, opened the second Top-Hat Drive-In Restaurant in the United States, which was the precursor to the Sonic Drive-In.
Woodward has an early childhood center, three elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school. The Woodward school precinct serves more than 2,500 students. The town/city also has a private school, the Woodward Christian Academy, that serves more than 100 students. Woodward is also home to the Woodward ground of Northwestern Oklahoma State University, which offers courses and degrees to the small-town population.
The City of Woodward-owned Woodward Public Library has seen a recent complete remodel under management of Head Librarian Connie Terry.
The Woodward News has been the small-town news origin since 1926.
Temple Lea Houston, last-born child of Sam Houston, a member of the Texas State Senate from 1885 to 1889, and a famous trial lawyer, moved to Woodward in 1894 and died there in 1905 at the age of forty-five.
Dick Thompson Morgan, United States Congressman, 2nd District, Oklahoma 1909-15, 8th District, Oklahoma 1915-20.
Terry Peach, farmer, rancher, Secretary and Commissioner of the Oklahoma State Board of Agriculture (2003-2011), Oklahoma State Executive Director, United States Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency (1993 2000) Charles Swindall, United States Congressman, Oklahoma; Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, 1929-1934.
Teague, military hero and long-term Texas Congressman, was born in Woodward on April 6, 1910.
Architectural/Historical Reconnaissance Level Survey of Certain Portions of the City of Woodward (PDF) (Report).
Architectural survey of Woodward, p.
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"Woodward County, Oklahoma County Climate Summaries".
Woodward School District, Education.com (accessed June 9, 2010).
Woodward Christian Academy, Education.com (accessed June 9, 2010).
"The Woodward News Home Page".
Below Devil's Gap: The Story of Woodward County, James, Louise B.
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