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<p><b>Broken Arrow</b> is a city located in the northeastern part of the <a href="/pages/w/109424399076333">U.S. state</a> of <a href="/pages/w/105818976117390">Oklahoma</a>, primarily in <a href="/pages/w/108828869140978">Tulsa County</a> but also with a section of the city in western <a href="/pages/w/138300492864975">Wagoner County</a>. It is the largest suburb of <a href="/pages/w/109436565740998">Tulsa</a>. According to the <a href="/pages/w/104097652960274">2010 census</a>, Broken Arrow has a population of 98,850 residents and is the fourth-largest city in the state. However, a July 2017, estimate reports that the population of the city is just under 112,000, making it the <a href="/pages/w/118986031480507">280th-largest city in the United States</a>. The city is part of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_Metropolitan_Area" class="wikipedia">Tulsa Metropolitan Area</a>, which has a population of 961,561 residents.</p><p>The <a href="/pages/w/103741392997977">Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad</a> sold lots for the town site in 1902 and company secretary William S. Fears named it Broken Arrow. The city was named for a Creek community settled by <a href="/pages/w/108655829167651">Creek</a> Indians who had been forced to relocate from <a href="/pages/w/104037882965264">Alabama</a> to Oklahoma along the <a href="/pages/w/112577975421175">Trail of Tears</a>.</p><p>Though Broken Arrow was originally an agricultural community, its current economy is diverse. The city has the third-largest concentration of manufacturers in the state.</p><h2>History</h2><p>The city's name comes from an old <a href="/pages/w/108655829167651">Creek</a> community in Alabama. Members of that community were expelled from Alabama by the United States government, along the <a href="/pages/w/112577975421175">Trail of Tears</a> in the 1830s. The Creek founded a new community in the <a href="/pages/w/111896572155494">Indian Territory</a>, and named it after their old settlement in Alabama. The town's Creek name was Rekackv (pronounced thlee-Kawtch-kuh), meaning broken arrow. The new Creek settlement was located several miles south of present-day downtown Broken Arrow.</p>