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Oklahoma City was settled on the 22nd of April 1889, during the Land Run, when federal land called the Unassigned Lands was opened for settlement. Around 10,000 homesteaders arrived that day. The first mayor, William Couch, was elected on the 26th of April 1889.
168 people were killed and more than 680 were injured. Timothy McVeigh detonated a fertilizer bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on the 19th of April 1995. The blast also destroyed or damaged 324 buildings within a 340-meter radius and caused at least $652 million in damage.
The Devon Energy Center, completed in 2012, stands at 844 feet and is the tallest building in both Oklahoma City and the state of Oklahoma.
Oklahoma City sits at the center of what is informally called Tornado Alley. Since records began in 1890, about 150 tornadoes have struck within city limits, and 13 of those have been classified as violent. Two tornadoes, in 1999 and 2013, reached the top rating on their respective scales.
MAPS, the Metropolitan Area Projects, is a series of voter-approved public investment packages starting in 1993. Funded by temporary sales tax increases, MAPS financed a baseball park, library, canal district, and eventually a downtown streetcar system. By 2010, MAPS had generated more than $3 billion in private investment.
The Thunder won their first NBA championship since relocating to Oklahoma City in 2025, defeating the Indiana Pacers in seven games in the NBA Finals.