Bartlesville is a city in northeastern Oklahoma, serving as the county seat of Washington County. It sits about 47 miles north of Tulsa and 18 miles south of the Kansas border, on the edge of the Osage Hills where the tallgrass prairie begins to roll. With a 2020 census population of roughly 37,300, it is a mid-sized regional center whose identity is inseparable from the American oil industry. The city's modern story begins with Frank Phillips and the Phillips Petroleum Company, which made Bartlesville its headquarters and transformed a frontier trading town into a corporate city. That heritage survives in the Phillips Petroleum Company Museum and in the surrounding institutions, museums, and neighborhoods the oil boom built. Today the energy industry remains part of the local economic fabric, alongside manufacturing, health care, and education. Bartlesville holds a distinctive place in American architecture: the Price Tower, completed in 1956, is the only skyscraper Frank Lloyd Wright ever realized, and it anchors the downtown skyline as a National Historic Landmark. The city's cultural life is unusually rich for its size, anchored by the annual OKM Music Festival, a summer classical and chamber music event, and by institutions such as the Bartlesville Art Association and area history museum. Education is a community strength. Students attend Bartlesville Public Schools, and Oklahoma Wesleyan University, a private Christian university, is located in the city. Recreation follows the Caney River through Johnstone Park, and just to the southwest, Woolaroc Museum & Wildlife Preserve—Frank Phillips' 3,700-acre ranch retreat—combines an art museum with native wildlife in the Osage Hills. Bartlesville suits families, professionals tied to the energy and industrial economy, and residents who want a smaller-city pace with genuine cultural institutions, all within a short drive of Tulsa and the Osage Nation's rolling landscape.