Osage Oil | The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
Jan 15, 2010 · By 1930 more than three dozen Osage oil fields existed, including Avant, Barnsdall, and Skiatook, and from 1901 through 1930, 319 million barrels of Oklahoma crude were pumped from the ground in Osage County. In the process of developing the Osage oil fields, the boomtown phenomenon occurred.
Osage Murders | The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
In 1923, the height of the Osage oil boom, the Osage tribe earned more than $30 million in revenue. Under the Osage Allotment Act of 1906 all subsurface minerals within the Osage Nation Reservation (present Osage County, Oklahoma) were tribally owned and held in …
Pawhuska | The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
Pawhuska was the scene of public lease auctions during the Osage oil boom of the 1910s and 1920s. Most sales were conducted by Colonel Ellsworth Walters beneath the Million Dollar Elm adjacent the Osage Agency.
The Osage Journal - The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Besides historical dependence on farming and ranching, its economy was most notably built on oil, especially the Osage oil boom of the 1910s and 20s. At its height in the 1920s Pawhuska had around 8,000 residents.
Osage (town) | The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
The Osage City and East Osage City oil fields remained productive into the twenty-first century. Osage had a population of 628 in 1940. That number decreased from 425 in 1950 to 170 in 1970.
Osage County | The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
By the mid-1980s approximately 250 oil fields had been discovered inside Osage County, including the Burbank Field opened by Ernest W. Marland in 1920. In 2000 one oil refinery and one petrochemical plant were operational.
The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
With the ability to transport the crude to market, oilmen flocked to Bartlesville, turning it into a major oil-boom town overnight and touching off one of the greatest rushes to riches in the American West—the Oklahoma oil boom era. In the first three decades of the twentieth century discovery after discovery was made in the Sooner State.
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BURBANK FIELD. About twenty miles east of Ponca City in east-central Osage County lies the community of Burbank. Near there on May 8, 1920, the Marland Oil Company completed the Burbank discovery well on the Bertha Hickman farm. The initial discovery produced 150 barrels of oil per day from the Burbank sand at a depth of 2,949 to 3,001 feet ...
The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
Shidler declined with the Osage oil boom during the Great Depression. In 2010 it was a quiet community of 441 residents. In 1930 the first federal census recorded the town's highest population, which was 1,177. In 1940 and 1950 the numbers were 718 and 840, respectively.
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Jan 15, 2010 · Located east of the present Osage Nation Tribal Museum at Pawhuska in Osage County, Oklahoma, the Million Dollar Elm was the site of public oil and natural gas lease auctions that began in November 1912.