In which state is Tulsa, as in the song '24 Hours From Tulsa'?
"Care Managed Healthcare Plans of Oklahoma, an organization dedicated to providing high-quality, cost-effective health insurance coverage to individuals and families in the area. Saint Francis’ mission and Catholic identity guide and direct all facets of its ministry to provide for the medical, psychological and spiritual needs of the communities it proudly serves. The Saint Francis Health System includes: In 1921, the American Red Cross opened Maurice Willows Hospital in north Tulsa to help victims of the Tulsa Race Riot. This facility was combined in 1932 into a larger hospital on Pine Street, known as Tulsa Hospital Number Two. It was"
"Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa ""Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa"" is a song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, about a traveling man who detours to a romance in a motel and ends up never returning home, which was a hit for Gene Pitney. Its success in the UK, peaking at #5, enabled Pitney to become an international star. In the US, Pitney peaked at #17 on the 7 December 1963 Hot 100 and #2 on the 6 December 1963 WLS Silver Dollar Survey. The twists of the song's lyrics (the protagonist, just 24 hours from reaching home, falls"
"Interstate 244 Interstate 244 (abbreviated I-244), also known as the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Expressway (in honor of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.), the Crosstown Expressway, and the Red Fork Expressway, is a -long east-west Interstate Highway bypass route of Interstate 44 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. At both I-244's western and eastern terminus, the highway connects with Interstate 44. I-244 runs from the western bank of the Arkansas River, across the river and past downtown Tulsa, before running through the northern half of the city and connecting again with Interstate 44. In downtown Tulsa, I-244 forms the northern"
"town but i've gone back through the years. once the needle goes in it never comes out. L.C. ""Tulsa"", Clark's first book, was published in 1971 by Lustrum Press, owned by Ralph Gibson. It has been claimed that thanks to Gene Pitney's 1960 song ""Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa"", Tulsa then represented ""young love and family values""; Clark's book challenged this with scenes of young people having sex, shooting up drugs, and playing with guns. Clark has said that he ""didn't take these photographs as a voyeur, but as a participant in the phenomenon"", and commentary on the book has"
"Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, and the Mayo Hotel, the former of which once served as home to J. Paul Getty. Known for a time as ""Terra Cotta City"", Tulsa hosted the International Sixth Congress on Art Deco in 2001. Downtown Tulsa is in the northwest quadrant of the city and is ringed by an expressway system called the inner dispersal loop. Downtown's buildings include many large office towers. At , the BOK Tower (formerly One Williams Center) was the tallest building in any of the 5 ""plains states"" (Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota) until the Devon"
"Mountains in northeast Oklahoma, a region of the state known as ""Green Country"". Considered the cultural and arts center of Oklahoma, Tulsa houses two world-renowned art museums, full-time professional opera and ballet companies, and one of the nation's largest concentrations of art deco architecture. The city has been called one of America's most livable large cities by Partners for Livable Communities, ""Forbes"", and Relocate America. ""FDi Magazine"" in 2009 ranked the city no. 8 in the U.S. for cities of the future. In 2012, Tulsa was ranked among the top 50 best cities in the United States by ""BusinessWeek"". People"
"Tulsa Opera Tulsa Opera, located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is the 18th-oldest opera company in the United States and was ranked by Opera News magazine among the 10 favorite regional opera companies in the nation. The company produces three operas each season performed at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center. The 2015-2016 season features Puccini's ""La bohème"", Previn's ""A Streetcar Named Desire"", and Saint-Saëns's ""Samson & Delilah"". In 1948, five Tulsans, Bess Gowans, Ralph and Ione Sassano, Mary Helen Markham and Beverly Bliss, formed the Tulsa Opera Club. On December 4 of that year, the organization performed Giuseppe Verdi's ""La traviata"", with"
"and easy access to Keystone State Park. The city is connected to Tulsa by Highway 412/64, 41st Street and Avery Drive. Sapulpa is a city in Creek and Tulsa counties, with its town center located approximately 14 miles southwest of downtown Tulsa. The population was 20,544 at the 2010 United States census (compared to 19,166 at the 2000 census), making it the fourth largest city in the Tulsa Metropolitan Area. It is the county seat of Creek County. North - Bartlesville, Owasso, Skiatook, Collinsville, Pawhuska, Dewey, Barnsdall. West - Sapulpa, Sand Springs, Bristow, Cleveland, Kellyville, Mannford and Hominy. East -"
"truck stop and one in a trailer park. In the aftermath of the tornado, which caused an estimated $500,000 in damage, 100 National Guard troops were deployed by Governor David Walters. Catoosa is located at (36.182194, -95.759616), northeast of Tulsa, Oklahoma in Rogers County, Oklahoma. This location provides mid-America river shipping access at the Tulsa Port of Catoosa. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and 0.14 percent is water. Catoosa has an inland seaport and the terminus of the Kerr-McClellan Arkansas River Navigation System. The Port of"
"northeastern quadrant. It is informally known as ""Green Country"", a longstanding name adopted the state's official tourism designation for all of northeastern Oklahoma (its usage in relation to the Tulsa Metropolitan Area can be traced to the early part of the 20th century). The Census Bureau defines the sphere of the city's influence as the Tulsa Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), spanning seven counties: Tulsa, Rogers, Osage, Wagoner, Okmulgee, Pawnee, and Creek. The 2015 U.S. Census estimate shows the Tulsa MSA to have 981,005 residents In 2015, U.S. Census estimates show the Tulsa-Muscogee-Bartlesville CMSA to have 1,151,172 residents. Tulsa has a"
"Driving Forward, a $892 million turnpike package. A tolled extension of the Gilcrease Expressway was included in the package. The project is scheduled to begin in the third quarter of 2016. Mile markers reset between gap in route. Gilcrease Expressway The Gilcrease Expressway is a highway in Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States. It is part of the county's long-term plan to complete an outer highway loop around Tulsa's central business district. The highway will connect Interstate 44 in West Tulsa to Interstate 244 near the Tulsa International Airport. Currently, the portion of freeway open to traffic is the section between"
"Creek Turnpike The Creek Turnpike, also designated State Highway 364 (SH-364), is a freeway-standard toll road that lies entirely in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The turnpike forms a partial beltway around the south and east sides of Tulsa, Oklahoma's second largest city. The Creek Turnpike's western terminus is at the Turner Turnpike in Sapulpa, while its northeastern terminus is at the Will Rogers Turnpike in Fair Oaks; both ends of the Creek Turnpike connect with Interstate 44 (I-44). Along the way, the highway passes through the cities of Sapulpa, Jenks, Tulsa, and Broken Arrow, and the counties of Creek,"
"Take Me Back to Tulsa ""Take Me Back to Tulsa"" is a Western swing standard song. Bob Wills and Tommy Duncan added words and music to the melody of the traditional fiddle tune ""Walkin' Georgia Rose"" in 1940. The song takes its name from the chorus: The song is a series of unrelated, mostly nonsense, rhyming couplets, i.e.: Modern covers of the song, in order to avoid racial offense, tend to replace above line with: When Wills was asked about the lines, he said they were just nonsense lyrics that he learned as a youth. Bob Wills and The Texas"
"parks. The region encompasses 30 lakes or reservoirs and borders the neighboring states of Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas. The geographic coordinates of the city of Tulsa are (36.131294, −95.937332), with an elevation of above sea level. The city developed on both sides of the prominent Arkansas River, which flows in a wide, sandy-bottomed channel. Its flow through the Tulsa area is controlled by upstream flood control reservoirs, but its width and depth can vary widely throughout the year, such as during periods of high rainfall or severe drought. A low-water dam was built to maintain a full channel at all"
"Tulsa Sound The Tulsa Sound is a popular musical style that originated in Tulsa, Oklahoma during the second half of the twentieth century. It is a mix of rockabilly, country, rock 'n' roll, and blues sounds of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Artists considered to have pioneered the Tulsa Sound include J. J. Cale, Leon Russell, Elvin Bishop, Jesse Ed Davis, Gus Hardin, Roger Tillison, David Gates, Eric Clapton, Rocky Frisco, Clyde Stacy, Flash Terry, Jimmy ""Junior "" Markham, The Tractors, Steve Ripley, David Teegarden, Jim Byfield, John D. Levan, Chuck Blackwell, The Zigs (previously The Notions), Don White,"
"Interstate 444 Interstate 444 (I-444) is an unsigned auxiliary route of the Interstate Highway System, with both ends at I-244 in downtown Tulsa in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. It makes up the eastern and southern sections on the square-shaped Inner Dispersal Loop. It is signed as US-75, with the first half of the highway also being signed as US-64 and State Highway 51 (SH-51). The I-444 designation does appear on Rand McNally maps, and also on some online maps, such as Bing Maps. At the time I-44 was designated, the mile markers in the Tulsa area were in the"
"and Halle Berry, scheduled for release in 2014. The 1999 drug arrests were also explored in the documentary """". Tulia, Texas Tulia is a city in, and county seat of, Swisher County, Texas, United States. The population was 4,967 at the 2010 census; in the 2013 census estimate, it had fallen to 4,903. The city is at the junction of U.S. Route 87 and Texas State Highway 86, approximately two miles east of Interstate 27. Tulia is a center for farming and agribusiness activities. Its site was originally on the acreage of the Tule Ranch division of the JA Ranch."
"most of the city of Tulsa. The boundaries for all five nations consist of over 19 million acres and nearly the entire eastern half of Oklahoma. In 1907, Congress admitted Oklahoma to the Union as the 46th state and federal territorial courts immediately transferred all non-federal cases involving Native Americans to state courts. The Supreme Court will decide whether the federal territorial courts had congressional authorization to make this transfer. Under long-standing Supreme Court precedent, Indian lands shall not be disestablished without compelling evidence of a congressional intention to disestablish the lands. In accordance with federal law under 18 U.S.C."
"Tulsa tornado of 2017 The 2017 Tulsa tornado took place on August 6, 2017 near Tulsa, Oklahoma. Major damage was inflicted on a shopping and office area in southeast Tulsa. However, because the storm struck late at night, there were no fatalities and a low number of people injured. The tornado formed at 1:19 A.M. CDT (Or Local Time) (06:19 UTC) south of East 36th Street South and east of South Harvard Avenue and eventually shifted west before heading toBroken Arrow, Oklahoma. At Around 1:25 A.M. The worst damage along its path was in midtown Tulsa (between South Sheridan Road"
"cities, local radio stations in the Tulsa area are controlled by a small handful of large broadcasting companies. The late radio personality Paul Harvey was born in Tulsa and worked at local radio station KVOO in his early career. Transportation in Tulsa is aided by Tulsa Transit's bus network of 97 vehicles and two primary airports, while the Tulsa Port of Catoosa provides transportation of goods and industry through international trade routes. Though internal transportation is largely dependent on automobiles, the city is consistently ranked in the five lowest metropolitan areas for average price of gas at the pump. Tulsa"
"Demographics of Tulsa, Oklahoma Tulsa is the second largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma and the county seat of Tulsa County. The city was estimated in 2011 by the U.S. Census Bureau to have 396,466 residents. As of the U.S. Census of 2010, there were 391,906 people, 163,975 households, and 95,246 families residing in the city of Tulsa (roughly comparable in size to Oakland, Tallinn, and Zurich). The population density was . There were 185,127 housing units at an average density of 982.3 per square mile (379.2/km). During the day, incoming commuters increase Tulsa's population by nearly 36,000"
"Oklahoma State Highway 266 State Highway 266 (abbreviated SH-266) is a state highway near Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. It runs for through Tulsa and Rogers Counties in northwestern Oklahoma. SH-266 begins at a cloverleaf interchange with U.S. Highway 169 (a Tulsa-area freeway), and heads northeast from there to meet the northern terminus of State Highway 167 near the Port of Catoosa (north of the town of Catoosa). Highway 266 arcs to the north to bypass the port, and then straightens out to run due east to Interstate 44 (the Will Rogers Turnpike). The number ""266"" refers to U.S. Highway 66"
"Gilcrease Expressway The Gilcrease Expressway is a highway in Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States. It is part of the county's long-term plan to complete an outer highway loop around Tulsa's central business district. The highway will connect Interstate 44 in West Tulsa to Interstate 244 near the Tulsa International Airport. Currently, the portion of freeway open to traffic is the section between North 41st West Avenue and Interstate 244. From US-75 to I-244/US-412, the Gilcrease carries the easternmost part of State Highway 11. The currently existing freeway serves Tulsa International Airport and surrounding areas. Additionally, the Gilcrease Expressway Extension has"
"Tulsa metropolitan area The Tulsa Metropolitan Area, officially defined as the Tulsa-Broken Arrow-Owasso Metropolitan Statistical Area is a metropolitan area in northeastern Oklahoma centered around the city of Tulsa and encompassing Tulsa, Rogers, Wagoner, Osage, Creek, Okmulgee and Pawnee counties. It has an estimated population of 981,005 and 1,151,172 people in the larger Combined Statistical area as of 2015. The Tulsa Metropolitan Area (TMA) consists of the following counties, listed in descending order of population (2010 census): Osage County, the largest county by land area in Oklahoma comprises 36 percent of the TMA. Wagoner County, with 8 percent of the"
"explanation of exit numbers). Interstate 444 Interstate 444 (I-444) is an unsigned auxiliary route of the Interstate Highway System, with both ends at I-244 in downtown Tulsa in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. It makes up the eastern and southern sections on the square-shaped Inner Dispersal Loop. It is signed as US-75, with the first half of the highway also being signed as US-64 and State Highway 51 (SH-51). The I-444 designation does appear on Rand McNally maps, and also on some online maps, such as Bing Maps. At the time I-44 was designated, the mile markers in the Tulsa"
"when we were with Jerry Lee Lewis, we would be playing a shuffle while Jerry Lee played straight eighth notes, if that is what they call the Tulsa Sound, that's not a bad thing"". Tulsa Sound The Tulsa Sound is a popular musical style that originated in Tulsa, Oklahoma during the second half of the twentieth century. It is a mix of rockabilly, country, rock 'n' roll, and blues sounds of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Artists considered to have pioneered the Tulsa Sound include J. J. Cale, Leon Russell, Elvin Bishop, Jesse Ed Davis, Gus Hardin, Roger Tillison,"
"is Bartlesville's primary institution of higher education. Owasso, a bedroom community of 28,915 people in 2010, is the third largest city in the Tulsa Metropolitan Area and one of the fastest-growing in the state. Situated just north of the Tulsa International Airport and the Tulsa Zoo in Tulsa and Rogers counties, the city is connected to Tulsa by Highway 169 and contains a large base of upscale retail. Bixby, located south of Tulsa, is a rapidly growing city and the fourth largest city in the Tulsa Metropolitan Area. It had a population of 20,884 at the 2010 census, a 58.6"
"(Cherokee County) into a region known as the Tulsa–Muskogee–Bartlesville Combined Statistical Area (CSA), commonly known as the Green Country region. The population of this wider region is 1,151,172—nearly one-third of Oklahoma's population—as of 2015. The Tulsa CSA is the 48th largest CSA, and the 54th largest primary census statistical area in the country. The Tulsa Metropolitan Area is heavily reliant on automobiles as a means of transportation. Interstate 44 (which runs northeast-southwest), U.S. Highway 75 (which runs north-south) and U.S. Highway 412 (which runs east-west) serve as the major thoroughfares of the region. Turnpikes play a vital role in the"
"Oklahoma. Claremore is also the setting of Oklahoma the musical. Country singer Garth Brooks also lives just outside Claremore. The Will Rogers Memorial is located in Claremore. Sand Springs, a diverse urban community is one of the oldest suburbs of Tulsa. The population was 18,906 in the 2010 U. S. Census. It is located along the Arkansas River, just five miles west of downtown Tulsa. It has a fast-growing residential population and is recognized as a hub of industrial activity. Attractions in Sand Springs include the Keystone Ancient Forest, Sand Springs Pogue Airport, the Canyons at Blackjack Ridge Golf Course"
"National Weather Service Tulsa, Oklahoma National Weather Service - Tulsa, Oklahoma (TSA) is a local weather forecast office responsible for monitoring weather conditions for 7 counties in Northwestern Arkansas, and 25 counties in Eastern Oklahoma. The current office in Tulsa maintains a WSR-88D (NEXRAD) radar system, and Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) that greatly improve forecasting in the region. Tulsa is in charge of weather forecasts, warnings and local statements as well as aviation weather and NOAA Weather Radio broadcasts in its service area. The office operates two Doppler radars, one in Tulsa (INX), and the other in Fort"
"Clapton and Jimmy Markham. Musicians from Tulsa or who started their musical careers in Tulsa include Garth Brooks, The Gap Band, Hanson, Caroline's Spine, Ronnie Dunn, Gene Autry, David Gates, Jamie Oldaker, Jim Keltner, Bob Wills, David Cook, Broncho, Tyson Meade, John Moreland, The Damn Quails, LANY, and JD McPherson. In 2012, Tulsa was ranked as having one of the best music scenes outside of New York, Los Angeles and Nashville. Tulsa restaurants and food trucks offer a number of cuisines, but several cuisines are particularly prominent in its culinary landscape because of its distinctive history. Tulsa is known nationally"
"of Maryland. Based on commuting patterns, the adjacent micropolitan area of Bartlesville, is grouped together in the (CSA). The population of this wider region is 998,438—more than one-fourth of Oklahoma's population—as of 2012. The 2010 census population of Green Country was 1,301,716 inhabitants, about 30 percent of whom were concentrated in the city of Tulsa. It includes the Deep Fork National Wildlife Refuge, Ozark Plateau National Wildlife Refuge, Arkansas River, Canadian River, Grand River, Illinois River, and Verdigris River. The Tulsa International Airport is the primary commercial flight operation in Green Country, delivering flights to major cities in the United"
"added in the future). Completion is scheduled for 2013. Extreme care has been used during the demolition to avoid vibrations that might further damage the historic 11th Street Bridge. Interstate 244 Interstate 244 (abbreviated I-244), also known as the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Expressway (in honor of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.), the Crosstown Expressway, and the Red Fork Expressway, is a -long east-west Interstate Highway bypass route of Interstate 44 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. At both I-244's western and eastern terminus, the highway connects with Interstate 44. I-244 runs from the western bank of the Arkansas River,"