Pawhuska, Oklahoma
Osage County
40-57600
Pawhuska is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) and the administrative seat of Osage County in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. In 2010, Pawhuska had 3584 inhabitants.
Pawhuska is the capital of the Osage Nation.
Geography
Pawhuska is located in northern Oklahoma at 36 ° 40'04 " north latitude and 96 ° 20'14 " west longitude. The city covers an area of 9.7 km ².
Neighbouring places of Pawhuska are Nelagony (10,5 km east-southeast ), Pershing (12,7 km southeast) and Wynona (15,8 km south).
The nearest major cities are Tulsa ( 84.9 km southeast), Oklahoma's capital Oklahoma City (226 km southwest), Wichita, Kansas (206 km north-west ) and Kansas City, Missouri (364 km northeast).
Traffic
In the city of Pawhuska take U.S. Highway 60 and the Oklahoma State Highways 11 and 99 together. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
With the Pawhuska Municipal Airport is 7.1 km to the west a small airfield. The next airports are the Tulsa International Airport ( 90.6 km south east ), the Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City (235 km southwest) and the Wichita Mid -Continent Airport in Wichita (211 km north-west ).
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Pawhuska 3584 people in 1483 households. The population density was 369.5 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 1483 households lived statistically 2.39 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 58.6 percent white, 3.0 percent African American, 29.2 percent Native American, 0.2 percent Asian, 0.1 percent and 0.8 percent Polynesians from other ethnic groups; 8.2 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 4.2 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
25.9 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 56.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 17.4 percent were 65 years or older. 52.1 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 30,669. The per capita income was $ 21,897. 19.8 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Sons and daughters of the community
- Bill Campbell (1920-1974), U.S. American football player