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LAWRENCE CREEK.

Situated in north-central Creek County, the incorporated community of Lawrence Creek lies two miles west of State Highway 48 on County Roads E0640/N3700 and eighteen miles due northwest of the county seat, Sapulpa. Residents voted to incorporate on March 15, 1983. Near Keystone Lake, Lawrence Creek had a population of 97 in 1990, 119 in 2000, and 149 in 2010. At the turn of the twenty-first century the community served as a "bedroom" community, as 100 percent of its employed citizens commuted to work in Sapulpa and Tulsa. Lawrence Creek had a fire department, and the Oklahoma Lake Patrol offered police service. The April 2020 census reported 121 residents.

Linda D. Wilson

Bibliography

Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City), 25 February 1983 and 28 January 1991.

Profiles of America, Vol. 2 (2d ed.; Millerton, N.Y.: Grey House Publishing, 2003). Tulsa (Oklahoma) World, 16 March 1983.

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Linda D. Wilson, “Lawrence Creek,” The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry?entry=LA031.

Published January 15, 2010
Last updated March 25, 2024

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