Ponca City (Iowa-Oto: Chína Uhánⁿdhe) is a city in Kay County in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The city was named after the Ponca tribe. Ponca City had a population of 25,387 at the grow old of the 2010 census– and a population of 24,424 in the 2020 census.

Ponca City was created in 1893 as “New Ponca” after the United States opened the Cherokee Outlet for European-American unity during the Cherokee Strip house run, the largest home run in United States history. The site for Ponca City was selected for its proximity to the Arkansas River and the presence of a freshwater spring near the river. The city was laid out by Burton Barnes, who drew occurring the first survey of the city and sold certificates for the lots he had surveyed. After the drawing for lots in the city was completed, Barnes was elected the city’s first mayor.

Another city, Cross, vied afterward Ponca City to become the leading city in the area. After the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway had opened a station in Cross, people thought it would not admission another in Ponca City because of the two cities’ proximity. New Ponca boosters eventually secured a station after offering the Santa Fe station agent two town lots and the pardon relocation of his home from Cross. Ponca City reportedly obtained its first boxcar station by some Ponca City supporters going to Cross and returning once the town’s station pulled at the back them. Cross eventually became defunct, and today, what was similar to Cross is now a residential district in Ponca City. In 1913, New Ponca tainted its publicize to Ponca City.

Ponca City’s records and economy has been shaped chiefly by the ebb and flow of the petroleum industry. E. W. Marland, a Pennsylvania oil man, came to Oklahoma and founded the Marland Oil Company, which in the same way as controlled approximately 10% of the world’s oil reserves. He founded the 101 Ranch Oil Company, located on the Miller Brothers 101 Ranch, and drilled his first affluent oil well upon land he leased in 1911 from the Ponca tribe of American Indians. He was elected in 1932 as a U.S. congressman and in 1934 as officer of Oklahoma.