1956 Map of Sand Springs

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The Arkansas River serves as the industrial and geographic anchor for this 1950s era landscape, where the growing urban footprints of Sand Springs and Tulsa meet. The river's northern bank is dominated by heavy infrastructure, including an Oil Refinery, the Sand Springs Railway, and various Gravel Pits, signaling the mid-century petroleum and transit economy of the region. North of the river, the Osage Indian Reservation Bdy marks a significant administrative transition, where the dense street grids of neighborhoods like West Tulsa give way to the more broken, wooded terrain of Black Dog and the Oil Field districts.