Barnsdall (Okla.)

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Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)
בארנסדאל (אוקלהומה)
Name (Latin)
Barnsdall (Okla.)
Coordinates
-96.16111111 -96.16111111 36.55944444 36.55944444 (gooearth )
W0960942 W0960942 N0363343 N0363343 (geonames )
Associated country
United States
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 145454838
Wikidata: Q2461969
Library of congress: n 83134569
Sources of Information
  • Barnsdall times, January 5, 1922:p.1 (Beginning January 1, 1922 the town of Bigheart, Oklahoma officially ceased to exist, and in its place the name Barnsdall now applies)
  • GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009(ppl; 36°33ʹ43ʺN 096°09ʹ42ʺW)
  • Oklahoma Historical Society, viewed September 14, 2020:Barnsdall page (Originally named Bigheart for Osage Chief James Bigheart, the community was officially renamed in honor of Theodore N. Barnsdall and his Barnsdall Oil Company on January 1, 1922 ... Bigheart began as a 160-acre townsite along the Midland Valley Railway in March 1905).
  • Schmidt, N.D. Our home town in the Osage Hills, 1983:p. 17 (est. as Bigheart [no publs. in LC data base] in 1906; name changed to Barnsdall 11-22-21)
  • Comm. atlas & market. guide, 1979(Barnsdall, Osage County)