Tulsa grew up around oil money and now spans about 200 square miles at 636 feet, with the Arkansas River running through town. Its art deco downtown and older neighborhoods share the city with newer suburbs.
The 2020 census put Tulsa at 413,066 residents, and the city sits at 636 feet. The city lies mostly in Tulsa County, with parts in Osage, Rogers and Wagoner counties, and it grew on both sides of the Arkansas River, whose flow is controlled by reservoirs at Keystone Lake. Oil was struck near Red Fork in 1901, and Tulsa carried the title Oil Capital of the World for most of the twentieth century.
That boom left one of the nation's largest collections of art deco buildings, plus older neighborhoods such as Cherry Street, Brookside and Maple Ridge. Summer means run about 83 degrees and January means about 38.5, with roughly 41 inches of precipitation and 8.7 inches of snow in a year. Long summers, mature trees and aging structures give pests plenty to use.