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is a city in Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States. The population of Glenpool is about 12,500.
On November 22, 1905, wildcatters, Robert Galbreath and Frank Chesley (along with, by some accounts, Charles Colcord), drilling for oil on farmland owned by Creek Indian Ida E. Glenn, created the first oil gusher in what would soon be known as the "Glenn Pool". The discovery set off a boom of growth for the area, bringing in hordes of people: lease buyers, producers, millionaires, laborers, tool suppliers, drunks, swindlers and newspeople. Daily production soon exceeded 120,000 barrels.
The oil field was the richest the world had yet known, making more money than the California Gold Rush and Colorado Silver Rush combined and making Oklahoma known around the world for oil production. With the fall of oil prices in the 1980s many of the communities surrounding Tulsa, the "Oil Capital of the World" fell into deep recession, and Glenpool was not spared this fate. An annual celebration called "Black Gold Days" commemorates the glory years of Glenpool's history.