City of Broken Arrow
Broken Arrow Real Estate
Broken Arrow has been recognized nationally and consistently as one of the best places in America to live and raise a family. In 2008, Family Circle Magazine named Broken Arrow as one of the top 10 cities in which to raise a family.
More than 90,000 people live in the city limits of Broken Arrow, referred to as “BA” for short by the residents. The city is constantly working to keep up with the growth of the city and the number of students attending school here. Broken Arrow Senior High is large with over 2,000 students graduating annually. The addition of the Northeastern State University’s branch campus in 2001 and Rhema Bible College, provides additional educational opportunities for students from all around the city, state and country.
Like any other city in Oklahoma, they like their football. The Broken Arrow Tigers are always to be contended with and the rivalry between Broken Arrow and Union High School is always strong. Broken Arrow also loves their marching band, The Pride of Broken Arrow. The band has a long winning history with a Bands of American Grand National Championship in 2006.
Broken Arrow offers convenient access to Tulsa via the Broken Arrow Expressway. If you’re looking for a family friendly community that’s close to the best that Tulsa has to offer, Broken Arrow is the ideal location. The real estate opportunities in Broken Arrow grow each day as the city expands and prospers. In addition, it has bee rated as the safest city in Oklahoma for several years in a row and was ranked 20th nationally.
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The History of Broken Arrow
Broken Arrow is a named after an old Creek Indian community in Alabama. When residents of that community moved to Oklahoma along the Trail of Tears, they settled here and named it after their old home. The settlement was located just a few miles south of what is present-day downtown Broken Arrow.
Several decades later, the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railway company laid rails through the area and established a town site along the route. In 1902, three sites were sold to the Arkansas Valley Town Site Company. William S. Fears, the secretary of the company, named the locations. The site that was 18 miles south of Tulsa and five miles north of the Creek settlement was named Broken arrow.
Broken Arrow did not grow quickly in the early 1900s. The city’s newspaper was established shortly after founding and the first school was built in 1904. The city’s main commercial center was located among Main Street, with the churches being located there as well.
In the 1960s, the area began to prosper and grow rapidly. The Broken Arrow Expressway was constructed and connected Broken Arrow with downtown Tulsa. The population quickly expanded to more than 50,000 residents living there in 1990 and 74,000 by 2000.
Each year more and more dining and shopping opportunities become available in the city as it grows and expands. Today, the community is a blend of cultures including Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanics and families from Russian and Ukraine. What once was a blue collar and rural community has become a bustling city of commerce and diversity in just a few short decades.
