Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.
—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
107historic places
—earliest paper
1907formed
669,279pop. 2020
39cemeteries
1CW battlefields
At a glance
Summary
The National Register of Historic Places includes 107 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1975; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Tulsa, Broken Arrow, Skiatook.
Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.
Tulsa County population from 1900 to 2020 (Census historical series).
1900
1920
1940
1950
1960
1980
2000
2020
21,693
109,023
193,363
251,686
346,038
470,593
563,299
669,279
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.
Cemeteries & historical places
USGS GNIS
39 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.
Cemeteries — 39 of 39 listed
Name
Lat
Lon
Adams Graveyard (historical)
None
None
Bixby Cemetery
35.94343
-95.90732
Blakemore Cemetery
36.26444
-95.89113
Booker T Washington Cemetery
36.03119
-95.92934
Calvary Cemetery
36.02981
-95.93467
Charley Cemetery
36.3104
-95.9504
Chisholm Cemetery
36.29981
-95.97527
Clinton Oaks Cemetery
36.1014
-96.01836
Crown Hill Cemetery
36.25147
-95.92387
Fairview Cemetery
36.26482
-95.84221
Floral Haven Cemetery
36.06538
-95.83471
Grayson Perryman Cemetery
36.14051
-95.87383
Green Acres Memorial Cemetery
36.33389
-95.92167
Haikey Cemetery
36.03009
-95.89026
Harlow Cemetery
36.23361
-95.83082
Hillside Mission Cemetery
36.42335
-95.98496
Lockridge Cemetery
35.98605
-95.83342
Lord Cemetery
36.27425
-95.94637
Meadowbrook Cemetery
36.08194
-96.06445
Memorial Park Cemetery
36.086
-95.88012
Oaklawn Cemetery
36.14868
-95.97776
Park Grove Cemetery
36.04788
-95.80499
Perryman Cemetery
36.11721
-95.96729
Post Oak Cemetery
36.11144
-96.15007
Prairie Gardens Cemetery
35.87562
-95.99236
Rentie Grove Community Cemetery
36.02611
-95.93966
Ridgelawn Cemetery
36.36426
-95.85944
Rock Creek Cemetery
36.09648
-96.22637
Rose Hill Cemetery
36.16204
-95.92583
Rosencutter Cemetery
36.04111
-96.00083
Sanger Cemetery
35.89568
-95.8742
Skiatook Cemetery
36.34444
-96.00111
Skybuck Cemetery
36.29731
-95.97137
Snake Creek Cemetery
35.88448
-95.85469
Tullahassee Creek Indian Cemetery
36.13639
-96.1
Twin Mounds Pioneer Cemetery
35.92203
-96.02888
Victory Indian Cemetery
36.37444
-95.83611
Wealaka Mission Cemetery
None
None
Woodland Cemetery
36.15286
-96.11445
Historical populated places — 1 of 1
Name
Lat
Lon
Posey
35.9501
-95.93638
Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.
Civil War battlefields nearby
ABPP
American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP) Civil War study areas near this county.
Battlefield
Study acres
Dist.
Site ID
Chusto -Talasah
6,508
20.7 km
OK002
Source: NPS American Battlefield Protection Program Civil War Study Areas (public ArcGIS feature service).
Historical markers
HMdb link
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