Oklahoma has an abundance of cities, towns and places whose names are hard to pronounce, or are especially unique. Here's how they got their names.

New data from the U.S. Census Bureau reveals that Oklahoma City grew by about 1% in 2023, pushing it past 700,000 residents and maintaining its position as the 20th largest city in the country ...

In September 1993, Mayor Ron Norick and I presented the “MAPS Summary Report Recommendation” to the Oklahoma City Commission. Amid the graphs, maps and numbers, we advanced one irrefutable ...

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Here are nine Oklahoma towns and how they got their unique names. Nowata, Oklahoma In far northeast Oklahoma, there's a city of about 3,500 people called Nowata.