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In the 1960s, Broken Arrow began to grow from a small town into a suburban city. The Broken Arrow Expressway (Oklahoma State Highway 51) was constructed in the mid-1960s and connected the city with downtown Tulsa, fueling growth in Broken Arrow. The population swelled from a little above 11,000 in 1970 to more than 50,000 in 1990, and then more ...
English: This is a locator map showing Tulsa County in Oklahoma. For more information, see Commons: ... Broken Arrow, Oklahoma; Buena Vista Park Historic District;
Berry, Shelley, Small Towns, Ghost Memories of Oklahoma: A Photographic Narrative of Hamlets and Villages Throughout Oklahoma's Seventy-seven Counties (Virginia Beach, Va.: Donning Company Publishers, 2004). Blake Gumprecht, "A Saloon On Every Corner: Whiskey Towns of Oklahoma Territory, 1889-1907," The Chronicles of Oklahoma 74 (Summer 1996).
In 1907 at Oklahoma statehood, Wagoner County was organized. ... New Tulsa, dissolved in 2001, now part of Broken Arrow; Education. School districts (all full K-12 ...
Regional Map Tulsa serves as the economic engine [citation needed] of the region. Broken Arrow is the region's second largest city. Bartlesville is the Tulsa–Bartlesville CSA's third largest city and the only outlying community with skyscrapers. The Tulsa metropolitan area's anchor city, Tulsa, is surrounded by two primary rings of suburbs.
The Broken Arrow Expressway was built in the early 1960s [6] and opened in 1964. [1] It was not, however, officially named the Broken Arrow Expressway until July 6, 1999 [ 7 ] by H.B. 1455. The steel truss bridge carrying SH-51 across Stillwater Creek west of Stillwater, once considered the gateway into the city, was removed on March 25, 2008.
Upon reaching the Broken Arrow Expressway (State Highway 51), US-64 splits off toward Downtown Tulsa, while US-169 continues north through east Tulsa. The next interchange US-169 has with another freeway is with I-44 ; 1.8 miles (2.9 km) to the north of this, it interchanges with I-244 .
Opened in 1969, the 53-mile (85.2 km) route begins at the Broken Arrow Expressway southeast of Tulsa, near an intersection with the Creek Turnpike. The Turnpike ends at Interstate 40 west of Webbers Falls. The Muskogee Turnpike's north section is connected to its south section by Oklahoma 165.