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Ponca City

Oklahoma, United States
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Ponca City, city, Kay county, northern Oklahoma, U.S. It lies along the Arkansas River, near the Kansas border. Founded overnight in 1893 with the opening of the Cherokee Strip, it was named for the Ponca Indians, who moved in 1879 to a reservation south of the town site. Surrounded by farm and ranch lands, the city boomed with the oil discoveries of the 1920s. Its diversified industries include oil refining, manufacture of petrochemicals and metal...

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