Ardmore is the county chair of Carter County, Oklahoma, United States. According to the 2010 census, the city had a population of 24,283, with an estimated population of 24,698 in 2019. The Ardmore micropolitan statistical area had an estimated population of 48,491 in 2013. Ardmore is 90 miles (140 km) from both Oklahoma City and Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, at the junction of Interstate 35 and U.S. Highway 70, and is generally considered the hub of the 13-county region of South Central Oklahoma, also known by give leave to enter tourism pamphlets as “Chickasaw Country” and previously “Lake and Trail Country”. It is with a part of the Texoma region. Ardmore is situated practically 9 miles (14 km) south of the Arbuckle Mountains and is located at the eastern margin of the Healdton Basin, one of the most oil-rich regions of the United States.

Ardmore was named after the rich Philadelphia suburb and historic PRR Main Line End of Ardmore, Pennsylvania, which was named after Ardmore in County Waterford, Ireland, by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1873. The name “Ardmore” is Irish for tall grounds or hills.

Ardmore, Indian Territory, began considering a plowed ditch for a Main Street in the summer of 1887 in Pickens County, Chickasaw Nation. It owes much of its existence to the construction of the Santa Fe Railroad through the area during that time. It grew, as most frontier towns grew, over the years into a trading outpost for the region. A large ember in 1895 destroyed much of the fledgling town, which provoked residents to rebuild approximately the entire town. In the further on 1900s, Ardmore became with ease known for its abundance of cotton-growing fields and eventually became known as the world’s largest inland cotton port.

After the fields were stripped of their fertility, however, the city found itself positioned against one of the largest oil fields ever produced in Oklahoma, the Healdton Oil Field. After its discovery in 1913, entrepreneurs and wildcatters flooded the area, and Carter County quickly became the largest oil-producing county in Oklahoma, and has remained as a result ever since. Ardmore has remained an energy middle for the region ever since, with the region’s natural loads giving birth to such life giants as the Noble Energy companies, among others. Ardmore also college the perils of visceral energy-rich with still another smash in 1915, when a railroad car containing casing gas exploded, killing 45 people and destroying much of downtown, including areas rebuilt after the 1895 fire. The disaster, which made national news, gave residents the resolve to uphold the city’s first flame department to ensure that such deeds would not recur in the future. The city has not experienced any major setbacks back the 1915 fire, save a 1995 tornado that nearly destroyed the Uniroyal Goodrich (now Michelin) tire forest in west Ardmore. Despite a shift at the plant lively at the time, miraculously no one was killed as the tornado ripped through the area, due to the public innate alerted by area news and tornado sirens. On April 22, 1966, Ardmore was the site of the worst plane crash in Oklahoma history, which killed 83 people.