FISHER

NAME: Fisher COUNTY: Tulsa ROADS: 2WD GRID: 3 CLIMATE: Hot summers and cold windy winters! BEST TIME TO VISIT: Anytime

COMMENTS: Two miles west of Sand Springs on SH-51 on south side of Arkansas River, hay fields and huge pecan groves. Current home of Lloyd E. Rader Diagnostic Center (former Hissom Memorial Center), Tulsa Boys Home, several housing additions, a bait shop, two convenience stores, two churches: Fisher Baptist Church and Fisher Assembly of God Church. REMAINS: Churches, railroad siding signs labeled "Fisher" and bait shop "Fisherman's Bottom"

Known locally as "Fisher's Bottom" this flat fertile area extends several miles west along the rich river bottom bounded by Fisher Creek and Anderson Creek on the south side of the Arkansas River in what was once Muskogee (Creek) Indian Territory. Flat fields and pecan groves below rolling hills containing Harding Limestone, later annexed to become part of Tulsa County. Owned by several generations of Fishers, land donated to State Of Oklahoma in the 1950's for DHS use and location for boy's home orphanage with over 100 Fishers still residing in Sand Springs. Craggy limestone bluffs and small natural caves and crevices along the creeks prior to their juncture with the Arkansas River. Good fishing with Bald Eagle and Blue Heron nesting sites in easy sight. Submitted by: Douglas L. Fisher

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