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Ponca City is a north central Oklahoma town founded after the 1893 Land Rush opened up the Cherokee Outlet for white settlement.  Ponca City is the largest city of Kay County with other major towns including Blackwell, Tonkawa and Newkirk, which is the county seat. The [[unincorporated area]] of McCord is directly east of Ponca City on U.S. Highway 60 inside Osage County, OK. Ponca City has a population of more than [http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/40/4059850.html 25,000] people.

Ponca City is a north central Oklahoma town founded after the 1893 Land Rush opened up the Cherokee Outlet for white settlement.  Ponca City is the largest city of Kay County with other major towns including Blackwell, Tonkawa and Newkirk, which is the county seat. The [[unincorporated area]] of McCord is directly east of Ponca City on U.S. Highway 60 inside Osage County, OK. Ponca City has a population of more than [http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/40/4059850.html 25,000] people.

==Oil Business==

==Oil Business==

Ponca City's history has been shaped for the most part by the ebb and flow of the petroleum industry. The [[Marland Oil Company]], which once controlled approximately 10 percent of the world's oil reserves, was founded by eventual Oklahoma governor and U.S. congressman [[E. W. Marland]], who drilled his first successful oil well on land he leased from the [[Ponca]] Tribe of [[American Indians in the United States|American Indians]] in 1911.  

Ponca City's history has been shaped for the most part by the ebb and flow of the petroleum industry. The [[Marland Oil Company]], which once controlled approximately 10 percent of the world's oil reserves, was founded by eventual Oklahoma governor and U.S. congressman [[E. W. Marland]], who drilled his first successful oil well on land he leased from the [[Ponca]] Tribe of [[American Indians in the United States|American Indians]] in 1911.