{"id":7124,"date":"2023-08-26T10:49:16","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T10:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/?p=7124"},"modified":"2026-08-07T18:59:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T18:59:40","slug":"washington-county-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/washington-county-oklahoma\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington County, Oklahoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington County is a county in Oklahoma, United States, about 47 miles north of Tulsa near<br \/>\nthe Kansas line. It had a population of 52,455 at the 2020 census and covers 424 square miles<br \/>\n(1,100 km2), of which 415 square miles are land and 8.8 square miles are water, centred near<br \/>\n36\u00b045\u2032N 95\u00b059\u2032W.<\/p>\n<p>Bartlesville is the county seat and largest city; its postal code is 74003. The county holds 2<br \/>\ncities, 4 incorporated towns and several smaller unincorporated communities, and it runs on<br \/>\nCentral Time. Washington County has no civil townships &mdash; Oklahoma abolished them at<br \/>\nstatehood in 1907, the same year this county was organized.<\/p>\n<h2>Towns &amp; Villages in Washington County<\/h2>\n<p>Washington County has 11 named places on record: 6 incorporated cities and towns, and 5<br \/>\nunincorporated communities with no town government of their own. Several of the unincorporated<br \/>\nnames date from the early-1900s oil boom and today mark little more than a rural crossroads or a<br \/>\nformer oil-field camp.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tv-table-scroll\">\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Place<\/th>\n<th>Type<\/th>\n<th>Pop.<\/th>\n<th>ZIP<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Bartlesville<\/td>\n<td>City &middot; seat<\/td>\n<td>37,290<\/td>\n<td>74003<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dewey<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>3,372<\/td>\n<td>74029<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Copan<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>710<\/td>\n<td>74022<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ramona<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>524<\/td>\n<td>74061<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ochelata<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>427<\/td>\n<td>74051<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Vera<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>334<\/td>\n<td>74082<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cotton Valley<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Hogshooter<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Matoaka<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Oglesby<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Owen<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<h2>ZIP Codes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>74003 &mdash; Bartlesville (the county&#8217;s main ZIP)<\/li>\n<li>74004 &mdash; Bartlesville (a secondary\/PO Box ZIP)<\/li>\n<li>74005 &mdash; Bartlesville (a secondary\/PO Box ZIP)<\/li>\n<li>74006 &mdash; shared by Bartlesville and Dewey<\/li>\n<li>74029 &mdash; Dewey<\/li>\n<li>74022 &mdash; Copan<\/li>\n<li>74051 &mdash; Ochelata<\/li>\n<li>74061 &mdash; Ramona<\/li>\n<li>74082 &mdash; Vera<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cotton Valley, Hogshooter, Matoaka, Oglesby and Owen have no ZIP code of their own; mail there<br \/>\nis delivered under the nearest incorporated town&#8217;s code.<\/p>\n<h2>Geography<\/h2>\n<p>Washington County lies in the Eastern Lowlands physiographic region of northeastern Oklahoma,<br \/>\ndrained by the Caney River. Of its 424 square miles, 415 are land and 8.8 are water, about 2.1<br \/>\npercent &mdash; concentrated in Copan Lake, Silver Lake and Bar-Dew Lake, the county&#8217;s main<br \/>\nreservoirs. It is the second-smallest county in Oklahoma by total area, smaller only than Osage<br \/>\nCounty next door.<\/p>\n<p>Montgomery County and Chautauqua County, both in Kansas, sit directly north across the state<br \/>\nline. Nowata County lies to the east, Rogers County to the southeast, Tulsa County to the south<br \/>\nand Osage County to the west. <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/montgomery-county-kansas\/\">Montgomery<br \/>\nCounty<\/a>, Chautauqua County, <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/nowata-county\/\">Nowata<br \/>\nCounty<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/rogers-county\/\">Rogers County<\/a>, <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/tulsa-county\/\">Tulsa County<\/a> and <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/osage-county-oklahoma\/\">Osage County<\/a> all border Washington<br \/>\nCounty directly.<\/p>\n<h2>Demographics<\/h2>\n<p>Washington County had a population of 52,455 at the 2020 census. Bartlesville and Dewey are by<br \/>\nfar the two largest communities, together holding more than three-quarters of the county&#8217;s<br \/>\nresidents. Median household income runs $55,216 (2021 ACS), below Oklahoma&#8217;s statewide<br \/>\nfigure of $62,138 (2023 ACS). Population density works out to roughly 126 people per square mile<br \/>\nof land.<\/p>\n<h2>Economy &amp; Local Life<\/h2>\n<p>Oil built this county. The Nellie Johnstone No. 1, Oklahoma&#8217;s first commercial oil well,<br \/>\nwas drilled near Bartlesville in 1897, and Frank Phillips founded Phillips Petroleum in<br \/>\nBartlesville in 1905. Phillips 66 and ConocoPhillips still dominate the local economy today,<br \/>\ncombining to employ or contract with more than 3,800 people in the area. Bartlesville is also<br \/>\nhome to Oklahoma Wesleyan University, about 1,100 students, and a branch campus of Rogers State<br \/>\nUniversity, about 700 students. Price Tower, the only skyscraper Frank Lloyd Wright ever built,<br \/>\nstands in downtown Bartlesville. The county&#8217;s biggest annual events are Sunfest, held the<br \/>\nfirst weekend of June, and the week-long OKM Music festival, also in June, both in Bartlesville.<\/p>\n<h2>History<\/h2>\n<p>The county&#8217;s first settlement, Little Verdigris, was established in 1859 at the<br \/>\nconfluence of Butler Creek and the Caney River. Washington County was organized in 1907, at<br \/>\nOklahoma statehood, and named for President George Washington. The 1897 discovery of oil at the<br \/>\nNellie Johnstone No. 1 near Bartlesville triggered decades of drilling, and oil fields with names<br \/>\nlike Hogshooter, Wann and Canary sprang up across the county in the years that followed &mdash;<br \/>\nseveral of today&#8217;s unincorporated place names trace back to that boom. Bartlesville<br \/>\nrestricted Black residents from living within city limits after dark in its early decades; that<br \/>\nrestriction had been lifted by 1907.<\/p>\n<h2>Getting There<\/h2>\n<p>No interstate crosses Washington County. US Route 75 runs north&#8211;south through the county,<br \/>\nserving Bartlesville, running concurrent with State Highway 10 at Copan, and meeting State Highway<br \/>\n123 at Dewey, before continuing north into Kansas.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tulsa &mdash; about 47 miles south<\/li>\n<li>Nowata &mdash; about 20 miles east<\/li>\n<li>Copan &mdash; about 14 miles north of Bartlesville<\/li>\n<li>Dewey &mdash; adjoins Bartlesville on its north side<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bartlesville Municipal Airport, one mile northwest of downtown Bartlesville, handles general<br \/>\naviation only; the airport had scheduled passenger service from 1949 to 1974 but none since.<br \/>\nTulsa International Airport, about 47 miles south, is the nearest commercial airport.<\/p>\n<h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Where is Washington County located?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt sits in northeastern Oklahoma on the Kansas border, about 47 miles north of Tulsa, bordered by<br \/>\nMontgomery and Chautauqua counties in Kansas, and Nowata, Rogers, Tulsa and Osage counties in<br \/>\nOklahoma.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the population of Washington County?<\/strong><br \/>\n52,455 at the 2020 census.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How big is Washington County?<\/strong><br \/>\n424 square miles (1,100 km2), of which 415 square miles are land &mdash; the second-smallest<br \/>\ncounty in Oklahoma by area.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the county seat of Washington County?<\/strong><br \/>\nBartlesville, home to Phillips 66 and ConocoPhillips, is the county seat and largest city.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many towns and cities are in Washington County?<\/strong><br \/>\nSix incorporated places &mdash; Bartlesville, Dewey, Copan, Ochelata, Ramona and Vera &mdash;<br \/>\nplus five unincorporated communities: Cotton Valley, Hogshooter, Matoaka, Oglesby and Owen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What ZIP codes does Washington County use?<\/strong><br \/>\n74003, 74004, 74005 and 74006 for Bartlesville; 74006 and 74029 for Dewey; 74022 for Copan; 74051<br \/>\nfor Ochelata; 74061 for Ramona; and 74082 for Vera.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is Washington County known for?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Nellie Johnstone No. 1, Oklahoma&#8217;s first commercial oil well, drilled near Bartlesville<br \/>\nin 1897, and as the birthplace of Phillips Petroleum, founded there in 1905.<\/p>\n<p>More counties in this state: <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/category\/oklahoma\/\">Towns and villages in Oklahoma<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington County is a county in Oklahoma, United States, about 47 miles north of Tulsa near the Kansas line. It had a population of 52,455 at the 2020 census and covers 424 square miles (1,100 km2), of which 415 square miles are land and 8.8 square miles are water, centred near 36\u00b045\u2032N 95\u00b059\u2032W. 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