Bixby, Oklahoma

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Local Information for Bixby, OK

Latitude: 35.960898 -- Longitude: -95.878258

Other Area Cities:   Bixby  Broken Arrow  Glenpool  Jenks  Sapulpa  Coweta 

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Bixby became a government town site with a post office in 1899. Located in the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Indian Territory, Bixby was named in honor of Tams Bixby, a chairman of the Dawes Commission. The original 80-acre town site was approved in 1902.Many settlers were attracted to the area by the rich, though sometimes swampy river bottom land. In 1904 the Midland Valley Railroad laid tracks and built a depot in Bixby. It created factions that briefly split Bixby into two towns. The new part of town was deliberately surveyed so that the new streets did not align with the existing ones.As of the censusof 2000, The median income for a household in the city was $50,854, and the median income for a family was $58,104. Males had a median income of $39,941 versus $27,110 for females. The per capita income for the city was $24,336. About 4.3% of families and 5.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 4.2% of those under age 18 and 14.9% of those age 65 or over. -- Source: Wikipedia.com