Norman is better known when a location of the University of Oklahoma, making it a center of culture, technology, & research project. Norman is one of the world's virtually all large centers of meteorology. A city is residence to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Severe Storms Laboratory, and a university's meteorology department is one of a virtually all extremely regarded in the globe. Norman is the birthplace of Doppler radar.

Norman is as well at home to a university-operated Sam Noble Museum of Natural History, (one of a largest of its sort) & the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, which processed news around 2001 after it was given a Weitzenhoffer Collection, a only first collection of French impressionistic art ever given to an Western university, including works by Mary Cassatt, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Camille Pissarro, among others.

Geography
Norman is placed at 35°13'Eighteen" North, 97°25'6" West (35.221617, -97.418236).

Based on data from a United States Census Bureau, the city has the number vicinity of 490.Eight km² (189.5 mi²). 458.Quintuplet klick² (177.Nought mi²) of these are l& and 32.Quatern kilometre² (Twelve.Quint mi²) of these are a water system. A aggregate locality is Half a dozen.60% water supply.

Demographics
When of the censusof 2000, there are 95,694 people, 38,834 home, & 22,562 families living in the city. A population density is 208.7/km² (540.6/mi²). There are 41,547 housing units at an typical density of Xc.6/km² (234.7/mi²). A racial makeup of the city is 82.36% White, 4.26% African American, 4.45% Native American, 3.49% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 1.37% from other races, and 4.01% from two or more races. Triplet.89% of the people are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There are 38,834 home away from which Twenty-seven.7% keep close at hand youngsters under a age of Eighteen accept the children, 45.1% come married couples living together, 9.5% have a female homeowner by owning there is no hubby present, & 41.9% come non-families. Xxx.3% of a lot home come processed higher of souls & Captain hicks.5% own mortal residing alone world health organization is 65 years aged or even older. A typical house size is Two.31 & a typical personal size is Two.93.

In a city the people is spread retired by owning Twenty-one.2% under a age of Xviii, Xxi.4% from either 18 to Two dozen, Xxix.1% from either 25 to 44, Xix.3% from either 45 to 64, & Ix.0% world health organization come 65 years aged or even older. A median age is Twenty-nine years. For each Centred females there are 101.Cipher males. For each C females age Xviii & concluded, there are 99.Septet males.

the median income for a menage in the city is $36,713, & the median income for a personal is $51,189. Males have a median income of $35,896 versus $26,394 for females. A per capita income for the city is $20,630. Fifteen.0% of the people & Septet.8% of families come beneath a poverty line. Away from a number people, Xi.4% of people under a age of 18 & Five.7% of victims 65 & older come residing beneath a poverty level.

History
A Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway planned Norman as a station site in Indian Territory in 1886-87, taking the name "Norman's Camp," a phrase that (the story goes) had been carved in a nearby tree 16 years earlier by the crew of a U.S. Land Professional surveyor, Abner Norman, world health organization can stand camped nearby when mapping a vicinity. A town itself, spell platted per railroad, wasn't settled until a Great Land Run of 1889, a mad dash by whiten settlers to claim the and then-alleged Unassigned Lands at the center of Indian Territory. By dusk around April 22, 1889, Norman probably experienced many 100 residents, camped in collapsible shelter & covered wagons in town lots that wouldn't remain vacant for yearn.

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2005 University of Oklahoma bombing