It is the largest amateur sports event in Oklahoma and is also held in the spring. Stillwater also hosts the Special Olympics every year, where thousands of athletes and hundreds of volunteers gather for a week - a long event at the Oklahoma City Convention Center. There are other events, such as the Blazing Tumbleweeds and the annual Stillwater Run, a 4.5-mile run through the city. This year, the run will take place at Eskimo's Joe's Juke Joint, which benefits the United Way standstill zone.

The university is also developing an art gallery in downtown Stillwater, where local and university artists will perform. Spring begins with a fundraiser in March, and the fall season begins with the Oklahoma State Fair, an on-campus-style event that informs students about the university's programs and activities, as well as a variety of other events and events.

The museum displays exhibits about Stillwater and Payne County, including the first land course that opened the Oklahoma Territory to settlement in 1889, and the history of the settlement itself. The author and traveler Washington Irving has provided the first recorded description of an area near still water in his book,

The northern and central region of Oklahoma became part of the United States after the purchase of Louisiana in 1803 and the Oklahoma Territory in the 1820s.

Stillwater remained a quiet agricultural community until an estimated tens of thousands of homeowners, including its own citizens, walked from Stillwater to the Cherokee Outlet in 1893. Stillwasser won a county seat when the Organic Act was passed by Congress on May 2, 1890. Another success came when the territorial legislature approved Stillwater in December 1890 as the site for a land-based college. On Christmas Eve of 1890, the Oklahoma Legislature passed a law that upheld the rule.

To appease the Payne Center, Stillwater leaders agreed to name the county after Captain David L. Payne, known as the Captain who opened the unassigned lands to settlement. On May 1, 1891, cannons were fired to signal the first land run that opened up the Unass-assigned areas of Oklahoma territory, including stagnant water. By the end of the day, 240 acres (0.97 km2) had been claimed and designated as Stillwater Township, and tent cities with a population of 300 were emerging all over the prairie. The DavidL Payne Memorial Monument, located in Boomer Lake Park, honors Captain Payne for his role in opening up "unallocated" land to settlement.

Quonset huts littered the city, and shacks occupied the site that now houses Stillwater Medical Center and CareerTech headquarters. The Oklahoma State University campus is located on the former site of the Oklahoma Army Corps of Engineers barracks at the intersection of North Main Street and South Broadway.

The arboretum covers an area of about 1,500 hectares in the town of Stillwater. In addition, the OETA series "Oklahoma Gardening" was first shown there in 2010.

Stillwater's educational institutions have the highest number of well-educated workers in Oklahoma, with 48% holding at least a bachelor's degree. Oklahoma State University's presence provides cultural opportunities, including a variety of educational opportunities for students, faculty, staff and alumni, as well as access to state - or research facilities. The university's offering is complemented by the first College of Veterinary Medicine in Oklahoma, which offers individual training opportunities to more than 1,000 students and faculty at the university.

Stillwater is part of the Stillwater metropolitan area, which has a population of 78,399, according to census estimates in 2012. The city's population is estimated at 46,560, making it the tenth largest city in Oklahoma. Between 2006 and 2009, the population grew by 8%, while the population in the surrounding municipalities rose from 73,818 to 79,727.

Tulsa is the second largest city in Oklahoma City, but is very close to Stillwater, as it is the second largest city in the greater Oklahoma City area and the third largest city in Oklahoma City. Tulsa is a small city of 46,560 people and covers 1.5 million square miles. Still water is located on the east side of Oklahoma, north of Tulsa and south of the state capital, Tulsa City Hall, in Tulsa County, Oklahoma. It is one of four major cities in the Tulsa - Tulsa subway area. It is an important city for the oil and gas industry as well as other industries such as mining and oil refining.

Go north, then go east on Highway 51 to reach Stillwater, or go north and go west on Interstate 35 to reach Stillwater. Drive north on Highway 51 to still water, then east on Highway 51 to reach still water.

The Cimarron Turnpike serves as the main thoroughfare to reach Stillwater from the Tulsa area, and it can be reached on this route in about an hour and a half. The Cimarron turns into Interstate 35 and can be reached from Stillwaters within an hour - and, if you use this route, a half, but it is only a short drive from downtown Tulsa to downtown, not a full road to still water, as it is connected to I-35 at the intersection of Interstate 65 and Interstate 40.