Stillwater | Oklahoma, United States - Encyclopedia Britannica

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Stillwater, city, seat (1907) of Payne county, north-central Oklahoma, U.S. It was first recorded in 1884 as a colony of “boomers” (illegal homesteaders from Kansas) on Stillwater Creek, near its confluence with the Cimarron River; the colony was led by Civil War veteran Captain David L. Payne, to whom a memorial park was dedicated in 1996. A permanent settlement was begun in April 1889 in the first great Oklahoma land run. Growth was stimulated by the establishment there in 1890 of the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College, rechartered as Oklahoma State University in 1957. The university continues to dominate the city’s economic and social development.

Local resources include cattle, wheat, and natural gas. Stillwater is the site of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. The Washington Irving Trail Museum is located southeast of Stillwater at the site of one of Irving’s encampments during the trip he described in A Tour of the Prairies. Nearby Lake Carl Blackwell (3,200 acres [1,300 hectares]) was created in 1938 by the impounding of Stillwater Creek. Inc. village, 1890; town, 1891; city, 1895. Pop. (2000) 39,065; (2010) 45,688.

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