Facts About Bartlesville
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Bartlesville is located at 36°44′50″N 95°57′34″W (36.747193, -95.959498).
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The city has a total area of 21.1 square miles (54.6 km2), of which 21.1 square miles (54.6 km2) is land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km2) (0.09%) is water.
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The population was 37,290 at the 2020 census.
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is one of two places in Oklahoma where a Lenape Native American tribe lives, the other being Anadarko.
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Bartlesville was incorporated on January 15, 1897.
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Jacob Bartles established a trading post in the present-day town of Bartlesville in 1875.
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The Bartlesville headquarters of Cities Service was located in the nine-story office building at Fourth Street and Dewey Avenue, now the downtown campus of Rogers State University.
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Bartlesville is familiar with both sweltering conditions in the summer with a record high of 115 °F or 46.1 °C and with icy conditions with a history of low of −28 °F or −33.3 °C.
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The founders of Bartlesville’s famous Murphy’s Steak House at 1615 SW Frank Phillips, opened their famous eatery in 1947, originally located on West Third Street.
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Bartlesville is notable as the longtime home of Phillips Petroleum Company. Frank Phillips founded Phillips Petroleum in Bartlesville in 1905 when the area was still an Indian Territory.
