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The Ponca Nation, which has kept its headquarters south of Ponca City since 1879, played a major part in the development of the Marland Oil Company and the city. Chief White Eagle leased resource-containing portions of the tribe's allotted land to E.W. Marland in 1911 for oil exploration and development.
The Ponca tribe first opened a casino in Ponca City, which is no longer operational. The Ponca opened a second casino in the same location, which also went out of business because of the 2008 recession. In September 2020, the tribe opened up a casino in Perry, Oklahoma after a months-long delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [9] [10] [11]
The main office was in Ponca City and the company stayed in operation until November 1916 when it was sold for cash and stock in the Marland Oil Company, later (January 3, 1921), incorporated in Delaware to acquire through an exchange of stock control of the Marland Refining Co. and Kay County Gas Co. Name changed to Continental Oil Company ...
Metropolitan Area Projects Plan (MAPS) is a multi-year, municipal capital improvement program, consisting of a number of projects, originally conceived in the 1990s in Oklahoma City by its then mayor Ron Norick. A MAPS program features several interrelated and defined capital projects, funded by a temporary sales tax (allowing projects to be ...
Kay County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.As of the 2020 census, its population was 43,700. [1] Its county seat is Newkirk, [2] and the largest city is Ponca City.
Nov. 22—The Clovis city commission adopted an economic development plan on Thursday that experts say is more comprehensive than any plan to date. TIP Strategies, Inc., an Austin-based consulting ...
The Think Fremont growth and development plan is helping to piece together wins through grant funding. Fremont releases new economic development plan: successes and challenges noted Skip to main ...
The Ponca signed their last treaty with the US in 1865. [11] In the 1868 US-Sioux Treaty of Fort Laramie [12] the US mistakenly included all Ponca lands in the Great Sioux Reservation. Conflict between the Ponca and the Sioux/Lakota, who now claimed the land as their own by US law, forced the US to remove the Ponca from their own ancestral lands.