Tulsa
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- Names
Tulsa
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located on Arkansas river; was Creek Indian village in 1830s; European-Americans founded town along St. Louis-San Francisco Railway in 1882; nearby oil discovery in 1901 initiated rapid growth; is national headquarters for Jaycees organization.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Canby, Historic Places (1984); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
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