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Ada, Oklahoma
Ada, Oklahoma: county seat of Pontotoc County in southeast Oklahoma and home of the Chickasaw Nation headquarters and East Central University. Founded 1891, incorporated 1901; 2020 population 16,481.
Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
Broken Arrow, Oklahoma: fourth-largest city in the state (124,991 est. 2025), largest Tulsa suburb in Tulsa and Wagoner counties, founded 1902 as a Katy Railroad townsite named for a Muscogee tribal town.
Edmond, Oklahoma
Edmond, Oklahoma: a city in northern Oklahoma County founded in 1887 as a Santa Fe Railway coal and water stop at Mile Marker 103, named for agent Edmond Burdick, settled in the 1889 Land Run, home of the University of Central Oklahoma.
Lawton, Oklahoma
Lawton, Oklahoma: county seat of Comanche County, founded August 6, 1901 in the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache land lottery and named for Major General Henry Ware Lawton; about 90,500 residents, anchored by Fort Sill.
Muskogee, Oklahoma
Muskogee, Oklahoma: county seat of Muskogee County, founded January 1872 as a Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway station in the Muscogee (Creek) Nation; federal seat of Indian Territory, 2020 population 36,878.
Norman
Norman, Oklahoma: third most populous Oklahoma city (128,026 in 2020 census), county seat of Cleveland County, home of the University of Oklahoma and the National Weather Center, founded 1889, incorporated 1891.
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City, capital and largest city of Oklahoma, founded in the Land Run of April 22, 1889; became state capital by a June 11, 1910 vote, boomed on 1928 oil, and rebuilt downtown through the MAPS sales-tax program from 1993.
Pawhuska, Oklahoma
Pawhuska, Oklahoma: county seat and largest city of Osage County, founded 1872 at the Osage Agency, site of the Million Dollar Elm oil lease auctions, population 2,984 (2020).
Shawnee, Oklahoma
Shawnee, Oklahoma: county seat of Pottawatomie County, about 35 miles east of Oklahoma City on I-40. Founded in the September 22, 1891 land run; population 31,377 (2020); home to four tribal governments, five casinos, and the International Finals Youth Rodeo.
Stillwater, Oklahoma
Stillwater, Oklahoma: Payne County seat and home of Oklahoma State University, settled in the 1889 Land Run; about 50,000 residents, council-manager government, Stillwater Regional Airport.
Tahlequah, Oklahoma
Tahlequah, Oklahoma: county seat of Cherokee County and capital of the Cherokee Nation, founded 1839 after the Trail of Tears, incorporated 1843, population 16,209 (2020), home of Northeastern State University.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Tulsa, Oklahoma: second-largest Oklahoma city (416,209 est. 2025) on the Arkansas River, an oil-boom 'Oil Capital of the World,' site of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre that destroyed the Greenwood District, now a diversified aerospace, energy, and healthcare economy.