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The Civic Center Music Hall is a performing arts center located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.It was constructed in 1937 as Municipal Auditorium and renamed in 1966. The facility includes the Thelma Gaylord Performing Arts Theatre, the Freede Little Theatre, CitySpace, the Meinders Hall of Mirrors and the Joel Levine Rehearsal Hall.
The Oklahoma City Council is non-partisan and its nine members are elected to four-year terms. Oklahoma City is divided into eight wards, and voters in each ward elect a council member to represent that ward. The mayor is the voting member who is elected by all voters of the city, and is the Chief Executive of the City and President of the Council.
The Oklahoma City metropolitan area, being the state's principal and largest metropolitan statistical area, had a population of 1,425,695 at the 2020 census, up from 1,252,987 in 2010; the 2021 American Community Survey estimated its population increased to 1,441,647. [2]
Comanche County, Oklahoma Territory: John Hall Stephens, a Texas congressman and advocate of Oklahoma statehood: 50.19 44,014: 877 sq mi (2,271 km 2) Texas County: 139: Guymon: 1907: Seventh County (entire panhandle until 1907) [13] The neighboring U.S. state of Texas: 10.00 20,371: 2,037 sq mi (5,276 km 2) Tillman County: 141: Frederick: 1907 ...
On March 6, 2020, the OMB delineated six combined statistical areas, five metropolitan statistical areas, and 17 micropolitan statistical areas in Oklahoma. [1] As of 2023, the largest of these is the Oklahoma City-Shawnee, OK CSA, comprising the area around Oklahoma City, Oklahoma's capital and largest city.
The Metropolitan Area Projects Plan 3, or MAPS 3, is a $777 million public works and redevelopment project in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma funded by a temporary voter-approved sales tax increase. The one-cent sales tax initiative began in April 2010 and ended in December 2017.
Downtown Oklahoma City is located at the geographic center of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area and contains the principal, central business district of the region. Downtown has over 80,000 workers [ 1 ] and over 13,310,000 sq ft (1,237,000 m 2 ) of leasable office space to-date. [ 2 ]
According to the 2020 census, Oklahoma is the 28th most populous state with 3,959,353 inhabitants but the 19th largest by land area spanning 68,594.92 square miles (177,660.0 km 2) of land. Oklahoma is divided into 77 counties and contains 596 municipalities consisting of cities and towns.