Ponca City, Oklahoma
Kay County Osage County
Ponca City is a city with the status of "city" whose parts are both in Osage County as well as in Kay County in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.
Geography
Ponca City is tangent to the southeast from the Arkansas River. The nearest major cities are Tulsa (125 km southeast), Oklahoma City (140 km south) and Wichita (110 km north) in Kansas. The road connecting U.S. Highway 77 runs right through the city, Interstate 35 is 15 kilometers away to the west.
History
The city was founded in 1883 under the name New Ponca. The name goes back to the Indian people of Ponca. Because of the proximity to the Arkansas River, the place was very attractive, and immigrants came to the area as the region was released by the Cherokee Outlet to settlement. A further boost to the city after the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway near led past. In 1913, the city changed its name to " Ponca City". As in drilling in the area oil was discovered, founded the Pennsylvania native EW Marland Marland the Oil Company, which soon promoted large amounts of oil and built an oil refinery. In the 1920s, Ponca City had its heyday with the oil boom. The Marland Oil Company went through a 1928 acquisition in the Continental Oil and Transportation Company ( Conoco ), which moved its headquarters to Ponca City. After a further merger with Phillips Petroleum Company to ConocoPhillips in 2002, the new company is headquartered in Houston, Texas. ConocoPhillips announced in 2009 that parts of the not be laid in the Rafferie employees to other company sites. Although the refinery is still operating, individual parts, but for example, the associated fluid catalytic cracker can be taken out of operation depending on the current market and price situation for refinery products temporarily. The refinery is opposite the museum opened in 2007 and Conoco, historical documents and objects of the oil industry and the cultural development Oklohomas are shown in the.
National Register of Historic Places
In Ponca City, many historically important buildings were built in the days of the oil boom, some of which were listed on the National Register of Historic Places. These include the Downtown Ponca City Historical District, the EW Marland Mansion, the Poncan Theatre, Paris Marland House, the Blaine Stadium and Field House and the Big V Ranch House.
Demography
In 2012, a population of 24 974 individuals was determined, which means a weakening by 3.6 % over the year 2000. The average age of the residents was in 2012 with 38.1 years below the average of Oklahoma, which was 40.6 years. Approximately 7.6% of the population is of Indian descent.
The most authoritative immigration groups during the beginnings of the town came to 16.4% from Germany to 11.8% in England and 10.7% in Ireland.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Douglas Blubaugh, freestyle wrestler
- Roger L. Kaesler, paleontologist
- Pat Muchmore, composer
- David F. Myers, politicians
- Don Nickles, politicians
- Charles Y. Prescott, physicist
- Shelby Wilson, freestyle wrestler