Bartlesville, Oklahoma

Bartlesville is a city located in Oklahoma. Bartlesville is forty-seven miles North of Tulsa and very close to the Kansas/Oklahoma state line. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 34,748. It is the county seat of Washington County{{GR|6}}. The city extends west so that it is partially located in Osage County, Oklahoma.

Related Topics:
Oklahoma - Tulsa - Kansas - 2000 - County seat - Washington County - West - Osage County, Oklahoma

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Bartlesville is notable for being the longtime home of Phillips Petroleum Company (now merged with Conoco as ConocoPhillips). Frank Phillips, who has a principal street named after him (the hospital is named after his wife Jane), founded Phillips Petroleum in Bartlesville in 1905 when the area was still Indian Territory. Phillips has always been the top employer. Chiefly white-collar workers are employed by the company in Bartlesville, because most of the industrial extraction and refining work is done elsewhere in the state and throughout the world.

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Phillips Petroleum Company - Conoco - ConocoPhillips - Frank Phillips - 1905 - Indian Territory - White-collar worker

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In spite of its relatively small size and proximity to Tulsa, Bartlesville has a daily newspaper, the Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise. Residents of the city are referred to as Bartians.

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Bartlesville is one of two places in Oklahoma where a Lenape tribe lives, the other being Anadarko.

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Lenape - Anadarko

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Bartlesville is home to the Price Tower, the only skyscraper designed by Frank Lloyd Wright that was actually built.

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Price Tower - Skyscraper - Frank Lloyd Wright

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Frank Phillips's home in Bartlesville is now a house museum that is maintained by the Oklahoma Historical Society. His ranch, Woolaroc, about 10 miles south-east of Bartlesville contains a museum of his art collection, and is also a big-game preserve with many native and exotic animals such as American Bison, Elk, and Zebra.

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