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Wetumka is a city in northern Hughes County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 1,135 as of the 2020 Census. [4] The Muscogee Creek who first settled it after removal in the 1830s named it for their ancestral town of Wetumpka in Alabama. Wetumka is a Muskogee language word meaning "rumbling waters." [5]
The Brookings Institution ranked the city 73rd amongst the world's metropolitan economics for income and employment growth in 2011, [5] and 106th in economic performance worldwide in 2012. [6] It also noted the city for its rising clean (green) industry at 1.7%; [7] Tulsa has the 8th fastest green job growth rate in the country. [8]
In 1898, the St. Louis and Oklahoma City Railway Company (later the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway), [4] connected Sapulpa and Oklahoma City. [3] The present Creek County was established at the time of statehood, with a population of 18,365. The town of Sapulpa was initially designated as the county seat.
Wind turbine blade on display in Weatherford, Oklahoma. Oklahoma's wind resources are the eighth best in the United States. The total number of direct and indirect jobs in the state from wind power development is estimated to be between 1,000 and 2,000. [20] Oklahoma ended the half-cent tax credit for wind by July 2017.
The Kialegee Tribal Town is headquartered in Wetumka, Oklahoma. Of the 700 enrolled tribal members, 629 live within the state of Oklahoma. Its tribal jurisdictional area falls in Creek County, Muskogee County, Tulsa County, County, Okmulgee County, Hughes, McIntosh, Okfuskee counties. [3] The tribe's Mekko or Chief is elected for a term of two ...
Oklahoma's 1st congressional district is in the northeastern corner of the state. Anchored by Tulsa , it is largely coextensive with the Tulsa metropolitan area . The district contains all of Tulsa County as well as portions of Creek, Rogers & Wagoner counties.
Tulsa (/ ˈ t ʌ l s ə / ⓘ TUL-sə) is the second-most-populous city in the state of Oklahoma, after Oklahoma City, and the 48th-most-populous city in the United States. The population was 413,066 as of the 2020 census. [5]
Oklahoma electricity production by type. This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in the U.S. state of Oklahoma, sorted by type and name.In 2021, Oklahoma had a total summer capacity of 29,824 MW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 80,755 GWh. [2]