Oklahoma City is on the I-35 Corridor , which is one of the primary travel corridors south into neighboring Texas and Mexico and north towards Wichita and Kansas City . Located in the state 's Frontier Country region , the city 's northeast section lies in an ecological region known as the Cross Timbers . The city was founded during the Land Run of 1889 and grew to a population of over 10,000 within hours of its founding . The city was the scene of the April 19 , 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building , in which 168 people died . It was the deadliest terror attack in the history of the United States until the attacks of September 11 , 2001 , and remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history
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