Jenks
A city in Tulsa County, Oklahoma — population 24,257 as of 2020.
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News around Tulsa County
Hunger does not always look like an empty plate. Sometimes it looks like a full-time worker standing in a grocery aisle doing math. It is a senior deciding whether medication or groceries can wait, a college student skipping dinner, or a family that appears completely stable…
Community Groups & OrganizationsOklahoma judge publicly reprimanded mps-post Wed, 09/30/2026 - 05:16 Image (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); (Oklahoma Voice) The Oklahoma Supreme Court publicly reprimanded a Tulsa county judge, saying her conduct was “indefensible” and reflected a lack of…
Government & Civic
‘American Diplomacy in Peril’: Black Leaders Seek to Restore Legitimacy
WASHINGTON — As the United States faces wars abroad, strained alliances, tariffs and deepening debates over its role in the world, Black political and civil-rights leaders are drawing on a tradition that stretches from W.E.B. Du Bois to Rev. Jesse Jackson: using the struggle for…
General
Mississippi Godayum: An Open Letter To A State With A Song Of Silence
Dear Mississippi, Your silence is a show tune. But you’ve sung this tune for far too long. In 1955, there was the gruesome murder of Emmett Till. Silence. In 1963, the assassination of Medgar Evers and the bombing of Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, where four Black…
General
Pastor embezzled $504K from historic Vernon AME, which survived the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
TULSA, Okla. — Historic Vernon AME Church says former pastor Keith Rydell Mayes Sr. acted without the knowledge or authorization of church leadership when he diverted more than $504,000 while overseeing the finances of one of Greenwood’s most significant institutions. Mayes, 63,…
GeneralFrom "O Brother, Where Art Thou" to "Watchmen" to "Poker Face,” Tim Blake Nelson is the actor you call when you want a character’s face to tell a lifetime of stories. But Nelson’s storytelling isn't limited to acting; lately, he's turned to writing novels, including his latest…
GeneralIn and around Jenks
See & do
+57 more on the mapEat, drink & stay
- 7 Brew Coffee
- Candlewood Suites Tulsa Hills - Jenks By Ihg
- ah-Sigh-e
- Andolini's Pizzeria Jenks Riverwalk
- Arby's
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Jenks by the numbers
- Area
- 17.11 sq mi (44.32 km²), 0.84 sq mi water
- Median age
- 34.3
- Households
- 8,960
- Persons per household
- 3
- Median household income
- $111,004
- Median house value
- $327,100
- Office
- PLANNING DIRECTOR
- Address
- PO BOX 2007, JENKS, OK 74037