About The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

Oklahoma City (/oʊkləˌhoʊmə -/ (listen)), officially the City of Oklahoma City, and often reduced to OKC, is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The county seat of Oklahoma County, it ranks 25th in the middle of United States cities in population, and is the 11th largest city in the South. The population grew in the flavor of the 2010 census and is estimated to have reached 655,057 as of July 2019. The Oklahoma City metropolitan area had a population of 1,396,445, and the Oklahoma City–Shawnee Combined Statistical Area had a population of 1,469,124, making it Oklahoma’s largest municipality and metropolitan Place by population.

Oklahoma City’s city limits extend somewhat into Canadian, Cleveland, and Pottawatomie counties, though much of those areas uncovered the core Oklahoma County Place are suburban tracts or protected rural zones (watershed). The city is the eighth-largest in the United States by Place including consolidated city-counties; it is the second-largest, after Houston, not including consolidated cities.

Oklahoma City has one of the world’s largest livestock markets. Oil, natural gas, petroleum products and united industries are its economy’s largest sector. The city is in the center of an lively oil dome and oil derricks dot the capitol grounds. The federal supervision employs a large number of workers at Tinker Air Force Base and the United States Department of Transportation’s Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center (which home offices of the Federal Aviation Administration and the Transportation Department’s Enterprise Service Center, respectively).

Oklahoma City is upon the I-35 Corridor, one of the primary travel corridors south into against Texas and Mexico and north towards Wichita and Kansas City. Located in the state’s Frontier Country region, the city’s northeast section lies in an ecological region known as the Cross Timbers. The city was founded during the Land Run of 1889 and grew to a population of beyond 10,000 within hours of its founding. It was the scene of the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, in which 168 people died, the deadliest terror anger in U.S. history until the attacks of September 11, 2001, and the deadliest dogfight of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.

Since weather chronicles have been kept, Oklahoma City has been struck by 13 violent tornadoes, 11 of which were rated F4 or EF4 on the Fujita and Enhanced Fujita scales, and two F5 or EF5.