Bristow is a city in Creek County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 4,222 at the 2010 census, down 2.4 percent from the figure of 4,325 recorded in 2000.

Bristow began in 1898, when the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway (“SL&SF”) built a track amongst Sapulpa and Oklahoma City. The town was named for Joseph L. Bristow, a U.S. senator from Kansas. A reveal office was acknowledged April 25, 1898. By the 1900 census, the population was 626.

Bristow was designated as the county seat for Creek County at statehood subsequent to its population was 1,134. However, the county held a special election on August 20, 1908, to find whether the seat would remain in Bristow or concern to Sapulpa, which claimed to be more centrally located. Bristow had a larger population and claimed to have improved railroad connections. Sapulpa won the election, but Bristow claimed voting irregularities. The election was voided and a new vote was held November 20, 1912. Again, Sapulpa won the election and the title of county seat.

The local economy depended heavily upon cotton. Bristow had seven cotton gins and two cottonseed oil mills in the beforehand 20th century. Other farms in the surrounding area produced corn, peanuts, potatoes and fruit. Oil and gas were discovered in the Place around 1915. The discovery led to the construction of three refineries and four pipeline companies by 1930. The Oklahoma-Southwestern Railway built a brusque line from a association with the SL&SF at Bristow through the oilfields to Slick in 1920, but declining oilfield production and supplementary factors plus to handing over of that trackage in 1930. The height census population was 6,619 in 1930.