Oologah, Oklahoma
Rogers County
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Oologah is a town ( Town) in Rogers County in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. According to the 2000 census it had a population of 883 over an area of 2.2 km ². The population density is 401.4 inhabitants per km ².
The place is located in northeastern Oklahoma, the nearest large city of Tulsa is about 40 km southwest. Just east is the Oologah Lake, an artificial lake. The major transport connections are U.S. Route 169 and the Oklahoma State Highway 88 after Claremore, the main town of the county. For freight transport, the railway line is through Oologah important.
History
Oologah originated in the territory of the Cherokee, which was forcibly relocated here in 1828. The place name is, according to the historian George Shirk on a Cherokee chief " Dark Cloud / Dark Cloud " go back. Other sources say that Oologah simply " cloudy sky " or "cloud " means.
The actual city's history begins in 1889 with the construction of a railway line by the Kansas and Arkansas Valley Railway (later part of the Missouri Pacific Railroad ). 1910 had Oologah 324 inhabitants, most important industry was next to the agriculture of the mining of coal. Due to the Great Depression and the decline of coal mining, the population fell to 1940 on 236 a sustained improvement set only after the construction of the dam on the Verdigris River and the creator of Tung Oologah Lake. Just east thus creating a tourist area, and the population rose to 458 at the 1980 census and in 2000 reached a peak of 883
Oologah is in the range of Tornado Alley, 1991, a tornado devastated the northern parts of the city, among other things, the school was damaged.
Cultural monuments
In or around Oologah there are four objects that are on the National Register of Historic Places:
- I.W.W. Beck Building, 1999
- Oologah bank, since 1982
- Oologah pump since 1992
- Birthplace of Will Rogers, 1970
Personalities
The humorist Will Rogers, who is one of the most popular citizens of Oklahoma today, was born in 1879 on the Dog Iron Ranch near Oologahs. His birthplace was admixed prior to the flooding of the Oologah Lakes, 1970, the ranch was added to the National Register of Historic Places. At Rogers' 60th anniversary of his death in 1995 a bronze statue was unveiled in Oologa showing him during a daily stay in the city.