page_title: Pryor Creek, Oklahoma
section_title: Economy
hierarchical_section_title: Pryor Creek, Oklahoma / Economy
caption_attribution_description: English: The MidAmerica Airport (H71) is located in the MidAmerica Industrial Park, in Pryor, Oklahoma. The Airport has a 5,000-foot runway capable of handling most business jets, a PAPI system and 24-hour credit fueling system with both jet fuel and avgas. The park owns and operates the airport which is classified as regional business airport (RBA).
context_page_description: Pryor Creek or Pryor is a city in and county seat of Mayes County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 8,659 at the 2000 census, compared to 9,539 in the 2010 census.
  Originally named Coo-Y-Yah, Cherokee for "place of the huckleberries", it was renamed Pryor Creek in 1887 which was the name of the local railroad station, which is turn was named for the nearby creek. Due to confusion in distinguishing handwritten mailing addresses to Pryor Creek and Pond Creek, the U.S. Postal Service name for the city was shortened to Pryor, and both names are in common usage.
context_section_description: MidAmerica Industrial Park is located about 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Pryor.  It houses more than 80 companies, including Fortune 500 leaders such as Google, DuPont and Nordam.  The facility includes its own airfield, the MidAmerica Industrial Park Airport, featuring a 5,000 foot runway refurbished in 2016.
  In May 2007 Google announced its plans to build a large Internet data center at the Mid-America Industrial Park.  The $600 million facility is now open and employs around 400 people. It is currently Google's second largest data center in the world. Google shut the worksite down in 2008 because of the status of the United States economy and work on its overseas projects and affairs,  then restarted the project in October 2010 and opened at the end of September 2011.
  In February 2018, Google announced a $600 million expansion to their data center in Pryor. The investment was to build a new four-story data center, which brought Pryor to be Google's second largest data center in their operations. This brings their total investment in the Pryor community to $2.5 billion.
  According to the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, manufacturing employs about 40 percent of the city's workforce. It is the seventh largest manufacturing center in the state. The main industries that it serves are: machinery, metals, electronics and transportation equipment.
caption: Mid-America Industrial Airport near Pryor Creek
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