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Pawhuska, Oklahoma
Pawhuska (/pɒˈhʌskə/ paw-HUSK-ə; Osage: 𐓄𐓘𐓢𐓶𐓮𐓤𐓘, romanized: hpahúska, lit. 'White Hair'; Iowa-Oto: Paháhga) is a city in and the county seat of Osage County, Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 2,984. It was named after the 19th-century Osage chief Paw-Hiu-Skah, which means "White Hair" in English. The Osage tribal government, which opened offices in Pawhuska in 1872 when its reservation was established in Indian Territory, continues to be based in Pawhuska.
The town, originally known as Deep Ford, was established in 1872 with the reservation for the Osage Nation, part of Indian Territory. The Osage Indian Agency was located along Bird Creek. One of the three main bands of the tribe settled here. Traders followed, building stores during 1872 and 1873. Pawhuska's first newspaper, the Indian Herald (also known as Wah-Sha-She News.), was founded in 1875 by George Edward Tinker, an Osage who became the father of Clarence L. Tinker, highest-ranking Native American officer in the US Army. The first post office opened in 1876.
The Midland Valley Railroad reached Pawhuska in September 1905. By the time of statehood in 1907, the town population was 2,407.
The first Boy Scout troop was organized in Pawhuska in May 1909 by John F. Mitchell, a missionary priest from England sent to St. Thomas Episcopal Church by the Church of England. On Independence day weekend 2009, the Pawhuska Boy Scout troop celebrated its centennial with a mini-jamboree attended by over 300 Scouts from across the United States.
During the Osage oil boom of the 1910s and 1920s, Pawhuska was the site of big-money public auctions of oil and gas leases under the so-called “Million Dollar Elm” next to the Osage Council House. The population grew to 6,414 by 1920. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway extended its line from Owen, a community in Washington County, to Pawhuska in 1923. As the oil boom declined and the Great Depression set in, the population declined. The steady decline has continued to the present.
Minor league baseball came to Pawhuska briefly in the 1920s in the form of two teams: the Pawhuska Huskers, which operated from 1920 to 1921, and the Pawhuska Osages, which operated for part of the 1922 season before folding.
Pawhuska is 57 miles (92 km) northwest of Tulsa. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.8 square miles (9.8 km2), all land. The city lies within USDA plant hardiness zone 7a (0 to 5 °F; −18 to −15 °C). The Tallgrass Prairie Preserve lies north of the town.
Pawhuska is in the Tulsa metropolitan area, which includes part of Osage County.
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Pawhuska, Oklahoma
Pawhuska (/pɒˈhʌskə/ paw-HUSK-ə; Osage: 𐓄𐓘𐓢𐓶𐓮𐓤𐓘, romanized: hpahúska, lit. 'White Hair'; Iowa-Oto: Paháhga) is a city in and the county seat of Osage County, Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 2,984. It was named after the 19th-century Osage chief Paw-Hiu-Skah, which means "White Hair" in English. The Osage tribal government, which opened offices in Pawhuska in 1872 when its reservation was established in Indian Territory, continues to be based in Pawhuska.
The town, originally known as Deep Ford, was established in 1872 with the reservation for the Osage Nation, part of Indian Territory. The Osage Indian Agency was located along Bird Creek. One of the three main bands of the tribe settled here. Traders followed, building stores during 1872 and 1873. Pawhuska's first newspaper, the Indian Herald (also known as Wah-Sha-She News.), was founded in 1875 by George Edward Tinker, an Osage who became the father of Clarence L. Tinker, highest-ranking Native American officer in the US Army. The first post office opened in 1876.
The Midland Valley Railroad reached Pawhuska in September 1905. By the time of statehood in 1907, the town population was 2,407.
The first Boy Scout troop was organized in Pawhuska in May 1909 by John F. Mitchell, a missionary priest from England sent to St. Thomas Episcopal Church by the Church of England. On Independence day weekend 2009, the Pawhuska Boy Scout troop celebrated its centennial with a mini-jamboree attended by over 300 Scouts from across the United States.
During the Osage oil boom of the 1910s and 1920s, Pawhuska was the site of big-money public auctions of oil and gas leases under the so-called “Million Dollar Elm” next to the Osage Council House. The population grew to 6,414 by 1920. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway extended its line from Owen, a community in Washington County, to Pawhuska in 1923. As the oil boom declined and the Great Depression set in, the population declined. The steady decline has continued to the present.
Minor league baseball came to Pawhuska briefly in the 1920s in the form of two teams: the Pawhuska Huskers, which operated from 1920 to 1921, and the Pawhuska Osages, which operated for part of the 1922 season before folding.
Pawhuska is 57 miles (92 km) northwest of Tulsa. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.8 square miles (9.8 km2), all land. The city lies within USDA plant hardiness zone 7a (0 to 5 °F; −18 to −15 °C). The Tallgrass Prairie Preserve lies north of the town.
Pawhuska is in the Tulsa metropolitan area, which includes part of Osage County.