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Tulsa is the second-largest city in Oklahoma and the 48th-largest in the United States, with a population of 413,066 as of the 2020 census and serving as the principal municipality of a metropolitan area with 1.06 million residents. Founded on March 28, 1836, by Opothleyahola and the Muscogee (Creek) Nation as a settlement called Lochapoka and formally incorporated in 1898, the city was historically nicknamed the "Oil Capital of the World" and remains largely situated in Creek Nation territory alongside Cherokee and Osage Nation lands. Situated on the Arkansas River in northeast Oklahoma's "Green Country" region within the western foothills of the Ozark Mountains, Tulsa has diversified its economy beyond energy to include finance, aviation, telecommunications, and technology sectors. The city is recognized as Oklahoma's cultural and arts center, featuring two accredited art museums, full-time professional opera and ballet companies, and one of the nation's largest concentrations of art deco architecture. Home to NCAA Division I institutions University of Tulsa and Oral Roberts University, plus secondary campuses of the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University, Tulsa serves as the county seat of Oklahoma's most densely populated county. Muskogee is Oklahoma's 13th-largest city and county seat of Muskogee County, located approximately 48 miles southeast of Tulsa, with a 2020 population of 36,878. The city's history dates to 1817 with the first permanent European-American settlement, and it became a significant hub following the Indian Removal Act of 1830 when the Muscogee Creek and other Five Civilized Tribes relocated to Indian Territory, with the Indian Agency serving as a meeting place for tribal leaders. After the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad extended to the area in 1872 and a federal court was established in 1889, businessman Charles N. Haskell transformed Muskogee from a land-rush settlement into a major business center, growing the population from 4,000 to over 25,000 by 1910 through railroad development and construction projects. The city served as the proposed capital of the State of Sequoyah, a Native American-controlled state proposed on August 21, 1905, which was vetoed by President Theodore Roosevelt before Oklahoma's admission to the Union as the 46th state on November 16, 1907. Muskogee gained international attention in May 2008 when voters elected 19-year-old John Tyler Hammons as mayor, making him one of America's youngest mayors. Bartlesville is a city in Washington County, Oklahoma, located 47 miles north of Tulsa and 18 miles south of the Kansas border, with a population of 37,290 at the 2020 census and serving as the county seat. The city was founded by Jacob Bartles in 1873 in Indian Territory, who established a trading post and various businesses before the town was incorporated in January 1897 and reached by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad in 1899. Bartlesville is most notable as the birthplace and longtime headquarters of Phillips Petroleum Company, founded by Frank Phillips in 1905, which grew into a multi-billion dollar oil company before merging with Conoco in 2002 to form ConocoPhillips, with both successor companies retaining operations in the city. The city is home to one of two Lenape Native American tribes in Oklahoma and was the site of the first pay cable television experiment in 1957, when the Bartlesville Telemovie System broadcast The Pajama Game to 300 homes. Bartlesville is the primary city of the Bartlesville Micropolitan Area with a combined population of 51,843 as of 2018 and part of the larger Tulsa Combined Statistical Area.