Bixby is a city in Tulsa and Wagoner counties in the U.S. state of Oklahoma, and is a suburb of Tulsa. The population was 28,609 at the 2020 census and 20,884 in the 2010 census, an increase of 13.70 percent In 2010, Bixby became the 19th largest city in Oklahoma. It is nicknamed “The Garden Spot of Oklahoma” for its wealthy agrarian heritage. Though one of the fastest-growing communities in Oklahoma, it remains a sod-growing center and a popular location for purchasing vivacious vegetables. The per capita income of $36,257 is the highest in the Tulsa Metropolitan area and is over 50 percent on peak of the acknowledge average. In 2009, CNN Money.com placed Bixby No. 67 on its list of 100 Best Places to Live.

Alexander Posey, a aficionada of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, and his family arranged in the Place now known as Bixby in the late 1800s. He founded a community that was initially known as “Posey on Posey Creek,” and included two saloons, a blacksmith shop, and a general store. The town became a government townsite later a publicize office in 1895. Located in the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Indian Territory, Bixby was named in great compliment of Tams Bixby, a chairman of the Dawes Commission. The original 80-acre (32 ha) townsite plat was endorsed by the Dawes Commission in 1902. Many settlers were attracted to the Place by the rich, though sometimes swampy river bottom land. In 1904 the Midland Valley Railroad laid tracks and built a depot virtually 1/2 mile north of the indigenous town of Bixby. This created factions that briefly split Bixby into two towns. The supplementary part of town was carefully surveyed appropriately that the additional streets did not align taking into account the existing ones. However, businesses in the native town soon moved to the other location and built permanent brick buildings there. Bixby incorporated as an independent, self-governing town in 1906, with a population of 400 and an Place of 160 acres (0.25 sq mi). The first mayor, recorder and five aldermen were elected in February 1907. In 1911, a two-story brick schoolhouse was built upon Main Street. Bixby Central Elementary is now near the indigenous site. A traffic bridge was built exceeding the Arkansas River in 1911, and for a grow old was said to be the longest bridge west of the Mississippi River.

Fry, a community located north of the original townsite but superior annexed by Bixby, served the surrounding trade Place when the only way to gain across the Arkansas River was by pretentiousness of the Shellenberger Ferry. Fry’s pronounce office operated from 1896 until 1909.

The Bixby Bulletin, the town’s first newspaper, began proclamation in February 1905. It continued revelation until 2005. A second paper, the Bixby Journal existed isolated from 1907 until 1910.