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Bixby (contact us about Bixby real estate) is a city in Oklahoma, and is a suburb of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The population was 18,600 at the 2005 census, a 40 percent increase from the 2000 census. It is nick-named "The Garden Spot of Oklahoma" for its rich agrarian heritage. Though one of the fastest growing communities in Oklahoma, it remains a sod-growing center and a popular location for purchasing fresh vegetables.


Bixby (contact us about Bixby real estate) is located at 35°57′39″N, 95°52′42″W (35.960898, -95.878258)GR1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 65.0 km˛ (24.1 mi˛). 62.3 km˛ (24.0 mi˛) of it is land and 2.7 km˛ (1.0 mi˛) of it (4.15%) is water. The average elevation is 750 ft above MSL. The town is bisected into north and south portions by the Arkansas River; the original town center is located south of the river.

Bixby (contact us about Bixby real estate) became a government town site with a post office in 1899. Located in the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Indian Territory, Bixby (contact us about Bixby real estate) was named in honor of Tams Bixby (contact us about Bixby real estate), 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 (contact us about Bixby real estate). It created factions that briefly split Bixby (contact us about Bixby real estate) into two towns. The new part of town was deliberately surveyed so that the new streets did not align with the existing ones.

Bixby (contact us about Bixby real estate) incorporated as an independent, self-governing town in 1906. The first mayor, recorder and five aldermen were elected in February, 1907. In 1911, a two-story brick schoolhouse was built on Main Street. Bixby (contact us about Bixby real estate) Central Elementary is now near the original site. A traffic bridge was built over the Arkansas River in 1911, and for a time was said to be the longest bridge west of the Mississippi River.

Bixby (contact us about Bixby real estate) was impacted and enriched by the discovery of nearby oil fields in 1913, but farming remained the backbone of the community well into the 20th Century. Early farmers focused on production of cotton, wheat and alfalfa in the rich river bottom. During the 1930's, truck farming of vegetables slowly replaced those crops. In 1941 Bixby (contact us about Bixby real estate) became an important regional center for shipping produce by railroad. It was at that time that Bixby (contact us about Bixby real estate) was christened with it nick-name "The Garden Spot of Oklahoma," a designation still carried on the town seal and public vehicles. Cantaloupes, potatoes, radishes, squash, turnips, spinach and sweet corn were shipped from Bixby (contact us about Bixby real estate) all over the U.S. In time, the majority of the truck farms were converted to the production of sod, typically Bermuda grass, or developed for residential and other purposes. Only a small percentage of Bixby (contact us about Bixby real estate) residents now work in agriculture, but the town continues to celebrate its earthy roots with a yearly "Green Corn Festival" in June.

Another point of history commemorated by Bixby (contact us about Bixby real estate) is the 1832 visit to the area by the famous American writer Washington Irving. Irving accompanied a U.S. Army exploration party on an excursion from Fort Gibson, Oklahoma west onto the prairie and the lands occupied by the Osage and Pawnee tribes. He described his adventure in his book A Tour on the Prairies (1835). In it, he relates camping in a grove of large trees on the banks of the Arkansas River in what is present day Bixby (contact us about Bixby real estate). The town has honored his visit by the creation of Washington Irving Park near the location. The park contains an amphitheatre stage patterned after the front facade of Irving's home, Sunnyside, in Tarrytown, New York, as well as gates near the park entrance that are replicas of ones at Irving's estate. A bronze statue of Washington Irving sits near the stage.

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