Nellie Johnstone No. 1
Nellie Johnstone No. 1 was the first commercially productive oil well in Oklahoma. Completed on April 15, 1897, the well was drilled in the Bartlesville Sand near Bartlesville, opening an era of oil exploration and development in Oklahoma.Photo: Davidm1969, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Price Tower and Bartlesville Municipal Airport.
Price Tower
Protected area
Photo: Lane Pearman, CC BY 2.0.
The Price Tower is a nineteen-story, 221-foot-high skyscraper at 510 South Dewey Avenue in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, United States. One of the few high-rises designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the Price Tower is derived from a 1929 proposal for a group of apartment buildings in New York City. Price Tower is situated 3,000 feet south of Nellie Johnstone No. 1.
Bartlesville Municipal Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Eric Salard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bartlesville Municipal Airport is in Osage County, Oklahoma, United States. It is owned by the City of Bartlesville and is one mile northwest of downtown. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 called it a general aviation facility. Bartlesville Municipal Airport is situated 2 miles west of Nellie Johnstone No. 1.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bartlesville and Dewey.
Bartlesville
Photo: Justin Cozart, CC BY 2.0.
Bartlesville is in Green Country Oklahoma north of Tulsa. It is the home of Phillips Petroleum Company now merged with Conoco and called ConocoPhillips.
Dewey
Dewey is a small town in the Green Country Region in Oklahoma. It lies on the outskirts of Bartlesville.Nellie Johnstone No. 1
- Type: Heritage site
- Description: oil well in Bartlesville, Oklahoma
- Categories: oil well, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Washington, Oklahoma, Great Plains, United States, North America
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Latitude
36.75578° or 36° 45′ 21″ northLongitude
-95.97273° or 95° 58′ 22″ westElevation
663 feet (202 metres)Inception
1897Open location code
8686Q24G+8WOpenStreetMap ID
node 357395765OpenStreetMap feature
historic=heritageWikidata ID
Q14708631
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