Woodward
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city in Oklahoma, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Oklahoma
- County
- Woodward
- Type
- City Manager Commission
- City manager
- Shaun Barnett
- Total
- 13.18 sq mi (34.13 km )
- Land
- 13.12 sq mi (33.98 km )
- Water
- 0.058 sq mi (0.15 km )
- Elevation
- 1,982 ft (604 m)
- Density
- 924.7/sq mi (357.01/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 (CDT)
- Zip codes
- 73801-73802
- Fips code
- 40-82150
- Website
- cityofwoodward-ok.gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Woodward
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Woodward County
- Population
- 12133
- Area
- 34.134754
- Elevation
- 582
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Capital of
- Woodward County
- Official website
- www.cityofwoodward.com
- Image
- WoodwardPostOfficeandCourtroom.jpg
- Households
- 5142
- Dialing code
- 580
Show 5 more facts
- postal code
- 73802
- Commons category
- Woodward, Oklahoma
- P8168
- Piledriver
- water as percent of area
- 0.4396
- per capita income
- 28197
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Encyclopedic overview
Woodward is a city in and the county seat of Woodward County, Oklahoma, United States. It is the largest city in a nine-county area. The population was 12,133 at the time of the 2020 census.
The area was historically occupied by the Kiowa, Comanche, Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes. European-American settlers established the town in 1887 after construction of the railroad to that point for shipping cattle to markets. The town was on the Great Western Cattle Trail. In the 19th century, it was one of the most important depots in the Oklahoma Territory for shipping cattle to the East. As an important cattle town, it had the rough frontier bawdiness of the time. The United States opened up much of the area to European-American settlement by the Land Run of 1893, and migrants rushed into the area.
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