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U.S. Highway 66 Will Rogers Highway US 66 highlighted in red Route information Maintained by ODOT Length 374.6 mi (602.9 km) (as close as possible to the latest surface alignments, except at Tulsa and Oklahoma City) The length of SH-66 is 192.8 mi (310.3 km) Existed December 7, 1926 –April 1, 1985 Major junctions West end US 66 at Texas state line Major intersections US 81 in El Reno (west ...
Route 66 Historical Village. Coordinates: 36.1083°N 96.0162°W. The Route 66 Historical Village at 3770 Southwest Boulevard in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is an open-air museum along historic U.S. Route 66 (US 66, Route 66). [ 1] The village includes a 194-foot-tall (59 m) oil derrick at the historic site of the first oil strike in Tulsa on June 25, 1901 ...
U.S. Route 66 Will Rogers Memorial Highway The final routing of U.S. Route 66 in red, with earlier alignments in pink Route information Length 2,448 mi (3,940 km) Existed November 11, 1926 (1926-11-11) –June 26, 1985 (1985-06-26) Tourist routes Historic Route 66 Major junctions West end Santa Monica, California East end Chicago, Illinois Location Country United States States California ...
Greenwood is a historic freedom colony in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As one of the most prominent concentrations of African-American businesses in the United States during the early 20th century, it was popularly known as America's "Black Wall Street". It was burned to the ground in the Tulsa race massacre of 1921, in which a local white mob gathered and ...
Oklahoma. US 169 is a major north–south highway spanning 75.1 miles (120.9 km) in Oklahoma. The southern terminus for US 169 is Memorial Drive. The highway connects Tulsa, Oklahoma to the south with the Kansas state border to the north at South Coffeyville, Oklahoma. US 169 travels through Tulsa, Rogers, and Nowata counties.
Website. www.cityoftulsa.org. Tulsa ( / ˈtʌlsə / TULL-sə) is the second-most-populous city in the state of Oklahoma, after Oklahoma City, and is the 48th-most-populous city in the United States. The population was 413,066 as of the 2020 census. [ 5] It is the principal municipality of the Tulsa metropolitan area, a region with 1,034,123 ...
Oklahoma originally had seven counties (Logan, Cleveland, Oklahoma, Canadian, Kingfisher, Payne, and Beaver) when it was first organized as the Oklahoma Territory. These counties were designated numerically, first through seventh. New counties added after this were designated by letters of the alphabet. The first seven counties were later ...
Downtown Tulsa is an area of approximately 1.4 square miles (3.6 km 2) surrounded by an inner-dispersal loop created by Interstate 244, US 64 and US 75. The area serves as Tulsa's financial and business district; it is the focus of a large initiative to draw tourism, which includes plans to capitalize on the area's historic architecture.