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BOK Financial Corporation — pronounced as letters, "B-O-K" — is a financial services holding company headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma.Offering a full complement of retail and commercial banking products and services across the American Midwest and Southwest, the company is one of the 50 largest financial services firms in the U.S., [2] and the largest in Oklahoma.
Lawton is the fifth-largest city in Oklahoma. The city has a total area of 75.1 sq mi (195 km 2), all land. [30] Lawton is located about 84 mi (135 km) southwest of Oklahoma City. Other surrounding cities include Wichita Falls about 47 mi (76 km) to the south, Duncan about 33 mi (53 km) to the east, and Altus about 56 mi (90 km) to the west. [31]
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Old Lawton High School is the site of City Hall. This is a complete list of the people who have served as mayor of the city of Lawton in southwest Oklahoma.. Lawton's city government uses a council-manager model of municipal government where most of the authority resides in the City Council.
Geronimo was the scene of one of the deadliest bank robberies in recent Oklahoma history on December 14, 1984. Shortly after 1 p.m., Jay Wesley Neill entered the First Bank of Chattanooga in Geronimo, and forced the three tellers to the back room, where he had them lie face down on the floor and stabbed them to death.
By the late 1930s, Lawton was connected by completely paved highways to Oklahoma City via U.S. 62 and 277, U.S. 62 west to Altus on into the Texas Panhandle, and U.S. 277-281 south to Wichita Falls, Texas. [15] The influx and rapid population expansion led to a series of public health crises, water shortage, and lawlessness.
Effort to blacklist investment firms with environmental, social and governmental policies would cost retired public employees millions, says OPEA
The Lawton Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of two counties – Comanche and Cotton – in Oklahoma, anchored by the city of Lawton. As of the 2010 census , the MSA had a population of 130,291.