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Oklahoma City, OK -- U.S. city in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 506132
Housing Units (2000): 228149
Land area (2000): 606.986603 sq. miles (1572.088019 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 14.162746 sq. miles (36.681341 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 621.149349 sq. miles (1608.769360 sq. km)
FIPS code: 55000
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 35.482309 N, 97.534994 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 73102 73103 73104 73105 73106 73107
73108 73109 73111 73112 73114 73117
73118 73119 73120 73121 73127 73128
73129 73131 73134 73135 73139 73141
73142 73149 73150 73151 73159 73162
73169 73173 73179
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Oklahoma City

Oklahoma City is the capital and largest city of the state of Oklahoma. The county seat of Oklahoma County, the city ranks 27th among United States cities in population. The population grew following the 2010 Census, with the population estimated to have increased to 631,346 as of July 2015. As of 2015, the Oklahoma City metropolitan area had a population of 1,358,452, and the Oklahoma City- Shawnee Combined Statistical Area had a population of 1,459,758 (Chamber of Commerce) residents, making it Oklahoma's largest metropolitan area.

Oklahoma City's city-limits extend into Canadian, Cleveland, and Pottawatomie counties, though much of those areas outside of the core Oklahoma County area are suburban or rural ( watershed). The city ranks as the eighth-largest city in the United States by land area (including consolidated city-counties; it is the largest city in the United States by land area whose government is not consolidated with that of a county or borough).

Oklahoma City, lying in the Great Plains region, features one of the largest livestock markets in the world. Oil, natural gas, petroleum products and related industries are the largest sector of the local economy. The city is situated in the middle of an active oil field and oil derricks dot the capitol grounds. The federal government employs large numbers of workers at Tinker Air Force Base and the United States Department of Transportation's Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center (these two sites house several offices of the Federal Aviation Administration and the Transportation Department's Enterprise Service Center, respectively).

Oklahoma City is on the I-35 Corridor and is one of the primary travel corridors into neighboring Texas and Mexico. Located in the Frontier Country region of the state, the city's northeast section lies in an ecological region known as the Cross Timbers. The city was founded during the Land Run of 1889, and grew to a population of over 10,000 within hours of its founding. The city was the scene of the April 19, 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, in which 168 people died. It was the deadliest terror attack in the history of the United States until the attacks of September 11, 2001, and remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.

Since the time weather records have been kept, Oklahoma City has been struck by thirteen strong tornadoes: eleven F/EF4s and two F/EF5.

Oklahoma City (disambiguation)

Oklahoma City is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.

Oklahoma City may also refer to:

  • Oklahoma City metropolitan area
  • Downtown Oklahoma City
  • Uptown Oklahoma City
  • Oklahoma City bombing
  • Oklahoma City National Memorial
  • Oklahoma City Philharmonic
  • Oklahoma City Crosstown
  • Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden
  • Oklahoma City Police Department
  • Oklahoma City Museum of Art
Sports
  • Oklahoma City Thunder - NBA team
  • Oklahoma City RedHawks - minor league baseball team
  • Oklahoma City Blazers - hockey team
  • Oklahoma City Yard Dawgz - arena football team
  • Oklahoma City Lightning - women's football team
  • Oklahoma City Warriors - defunct soccer team
Schools
  • Oklahoma City University
  • Oklahoma City Community College
  • Oklahoma City University School of Law
  • Oklahoma City Public Schools
Ships
  • USS Oklahoma City (CLG-5) - light cruiser in U.S. Navy 1944-1979.
  • USS Oklahoma City (SSN-723) - nuclear attack submarine 1988–present.
Temples
  • Oklahoma City Oklahoma Temple - temple of LDS Church.
Other uses
  • Oklahoma City sonic boom tests - controversial government experiment
  • Oklahoma City (Amtrak station) - train station
  • Oklahoma City-Ada-Atoka Railway - railway line
  • Oklahoma City Underground - pedestrian tunnels and skyways
  • Oklahoma City Assembly - closed GM factory

Usage examples of "oklahoma city".

McQuay is 37 years old and lives in Oklahoma City with his writer wife Shanna Bacharach, their three children and three cats.

Ryan had a vision of himself as a very young child, maybe three or four years old, at the Oklahoma City Zoo.

It's already leveled five towns, and the F-6 is headed right for Oklahoma City!

Would she be willing to go to Oklahoma City with me to sign papers?

After we sold our grocery store, we moved over on West Main Street in Oklahoma City.

As soon as she hung up, she wrote a terse note and dropped it in the mail, addressed to his Oklahoma City office.

Then I determined that there was a bus going north - Oklahoma City, Wichita, Salina - at ten o'clock that evening.

Albert Rance took his family, kids an' dogs an' all, into Oklahoma City one Christmus.