Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
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Statue of an early 20th-century family,
Centennial Park on Main Street |
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 Location within Tulsa County, and the state of Oklahoma |
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 Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
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| Coordinates: 36°2′11″N 95°47′1″W / 36.03639°N 95.78361°WCoordinates: 36°2′11″N 95°47′1″W / 36.03639°N 95.78361°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Oklahoma |
| Counties | Tulsa, Wagoner |
| Founded | 1902 |
| Incorporated | 1903 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Council-Manager |
| • City Manager | Thom Moton |
| • Mayor | Craig Thurmond |
| Area | |
| • City | 45.6 sq mi (118.1 km2) |
| • Land | 45.0 sq mi (116.5 km2) |
| • Water | 0.6 sq mi (1.6 km2) |
| Elevation | 755 ft (230 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • City | 98,850 |
| • Estimate (2015) | 106,653 |
| • Rank | US: 279th |
| • Density | 2,200/sq mi (840/km2) |
| • Metro | 961,561 (US: 55th) |
| Time zone | CST (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| ZIP codes | 74011-74014 |
| Area code(s) | 539/918 |
| FIPS code | 40-09050 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1090512 |
| Website | City of Broken Arrow |
Broken Arrow is a city located in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Oklahoma, primarily in Tulsa County but also with a section of the city in western Wagoner County. It is the largest suburb of Tulsa. According to the 2010 census, Broken Arrow has a population of 98,850 residents and is the fourth-largest city in the state. However, a July 1, 2015, estimate reports that the population of the city is 106,563, making it the 280th-largest city in the United States. The city is part of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area, which has a population of 961,561 residents.
The Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad sold lots for the town site in 1902 and company secretary William S. Fears named it Broken Arrow. The city was named for a Creek community settled by Creek Indians who had been forced to relocate from Alabama to Oklahoma along the Trail of Tears.
Though Broken Arrow was originally an agricultural community, its current economy is diverse. The city has the third-largest concentration of manufacturers in the state.
The city's name comes from an old Creek community in Alabama. Members of that community were expelled from Alabama by the United States government, along the Trail of Tears in the 1830s. The Creek founded a new community in the Indian Territory, and named it after their old settlement in Alabama. The town's Creek name was Rekackv (pronounced thlee-Kawtch-kuh), meaning broken arrow. The new Creek settlement was located several miles south of present-day downtown Broken Arrow.
In 1902 the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad planned a railroad through the area and was granted town site privileges along the route. They sold three of the as-yet-unnamed sites to the Arkansas Valley Town Site Company. William S. Fears, secretary of that company, was allowed to choose and name one of the locations. He selected a site about 18 miles (29 km) southeast of Tulsa and about five miles north of the thlee-Kawtch-kuh settlement and named the new town site Broken Arrow, after the Indian settlement. The MKT railroad, which was completed in 1903, ran through the middle of the city. It still exists today and is now owned by Union Pacific which currently uses it for freight.
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