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Tulsa began as 'Tallasi,' a Muscogee (Creek) word meaning 'old town,' settled by the Lochapoka clan between 1828 and 1836 after their removal to Indian Territory, and the modern city was incorporated in 1898.

Tulsa is the seat of Tulsa County and the second-largest city in Oklahoma, with 413,066 residents in the 2020 census and an estimated 416,209 in 2025.

Tulsa has about 172,909 households averaging 2.34 people each.

Tulsa exploded into the 'Oil Capital of the World' after the Glenn Pool oil discovery of 1905, and oil money built much of its famous skyline within two decades.

Tulsa holds one of the largest collections of Art Deco architecture in the United States, including the Boston Avenue Methodist Church, the Philcade Building and the Philtower.

Tulsa calls itself the 'Birthplace of Route 66' because local businessman Cyrus Avery, the 'Father of Route 66,' founded the U.S. Highway 66 Association in Tulsa in the 1920s to create the highway linking Chicago to Los Angeles.

The Golden Driller, a 75-foot-tall statue of an oil worker at Expo Square, has stood since 1966 and is Oklahoma's official state monument.

Tulsa's Gathering Place, a 66-acre riverfront park built for about $465 million, opened in 2018 and was named the best new attraction in the United States.

In 1921 the Tulsa Race Massacre destroyed Greenwood, the prosperous Black business district Booker T. Washington had dubbed 'Black Wall Street,' in one of the worst episodes of racial violence in American history.

Tulsa's Booker T. Washington High School, first built in 1913 as the city's separate school for Black students, is today a nationally recognized magnet school within Tulsa Public Schools, the largest school district in Oklahoma.