Bartlesville, Oklahoma
Washington County Osage County
40-04450
Bartlesville is a city in Oklahoma in the United States. It lies partly in the Osage and partly in Washington County and has 35,750 inhabitants ( 2010). Bartlesville is situated 75 kilometers north of Tulsa and very close to Oklahoma's northern border with Kansas. It is the county seat of Washington County, in which lies the greater part of the city.
Bartlesville has long been the seat of the Phillips Petroleum Company, until it merged with Conoco to ConocoPhillips. Frank Phillips, after whom the main street of the city was named ( the hospital was named after his wife Jane ), founded Phillips Petroleum in Bartlesville in 1905 when the area was still an Indian Territory. Phillips has always been the largest employer in the city. ConocoPhillips currently employs mainly employees in the administration in Bartlesville, while the refineries and processing in other places in the state and are distributed worldwide.
In the city you will find a daily newspaper and several radio stations. It is next to one of the two places in Anadarko Oklahoma where a Lenape tribe lives.
Education
Bartlesville is home to the Oklahoma Wesleyan University, a private, religious institution of the Wesleyan Church with about 400 students, and an extension of the Rogers State University with approximately 700 students.
Geography
Bartlesville has a total area of 54.7 km ² and is located on the Caney River, which separates downtown from the East Side. The river rose in October 1986 after heavy rains overflowed its banks, the city divided for several days in half and caused considerable material damage. A weaker flood occurred again on in June 2007.
Tourism
A sight of Bartlesville is designed by Frank Lloyd Wright 's Price Tower in downtown. The nearby Bartlesville Community Center the OK MOZART is held each June, a week-long international music festival. This began in 1985 and includes classical concerts, jazz, opera performances and other around the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Occurred include already Itzhak Perlman, Joyce Yang, Joshua Bell, and André Watts.
The town also has several annual festivals and performances. The Sunfest consists of three festival on the first weekend in June: an art exhibition and music festival in Sooner Park, a vintage automobile show in Johnstone Park and a double -decker show at the airport of Bartlesville. Another classic air show takes place in the fall. Also held every autumn a Indian Summer Festival in the Community Center. A series of concerts for young people, called "The Wherehouse ", shows several times a month and alternative Christian rock bands and artists.
Frank Phillips former residential building in Bartlesville is now a museum, which is maintained by the Historical Society of Oklahoma. His ranch " Woolaroc " (from woods, lakes, rocks / woods, lakes, rocks ) 16 km southwest of the city spanning 15 square kilometers including a museum with Phillips' extensive collection of Indian, regional and modern art as well as his collection of weapons, to the most complete in the world heard his tomb, a wildlife reserve with bison, elk, Texan Longhorn, water buffalo, and zebras and more than 20 other animal species.
Well-known residents
- David Ayers, actor
- Nancy Barrett, Actress
- Patrick Cranshaw, actor
- Becky Hobbs, singer
- Bob Kurland, Basketball Player
- Terrence Malick, director
- Tyson Meade, musicians
- Emeka Okafor, Basketball Player
- Mark Price, Basketball Player
- John Wesley Raley, minister and educator
- Sue Stotlar, artists
- Gretchen Wyler, Actress
- Frank Phillips, founder of Phillips Petroleum
- Jerry Cantrell, guitarist and singer of the band Alice in Chains
- Frank Magana, Metallurg, entrepreneurs and artists
- River Southworth, musician and songwriter