[4] Glenpool is notable because the discovery of oil in 1905, which caused an economic boom that propelled the growth of Tulsa and its surroundings.

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.

[8] In the early days, Glenpool was on the route of the Sapulpa & Interurban Railway (“S&I”) streetcar/interurban line connecting to Tulsa through Kiefer and Sapulpa, as well as south to Mounds; S&I subsequently went through a series of mergers and name changes, with only the Tulsa-to-Sapulpa portion continuing as the Tulsa-Sapulpa Union Railway.

[7] An annual celebration called "Black Gold Days" is a three-day, family-friendly event with food, music, arts and crafts, a carnival, and a parade.

Glenpool is located in the northeastern corner of Oklahoma, approximately 15 miles (24 km) south of downtown Tulsa on U.S. Route 75, a major national north–south artery.

[10][11] The city is on the eastern edge of the Cross Timbers ecoregion, between the Great Plains and the foot of the Ozarks.

[12] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total land area of 10.97 square miles (28.4 km2) as of 2020.

Lee Hays and Monday Durant, joint guardians, will hand over next July to her a lease for the...company, giving her one-eighth of the production, $100,000 in cash, $50,000 in notes and mortgages and the title to a number of farms in Muskogee county, amounting in all to more than a million dollars.

Galbreath and Chesley had used their own money to pay for an oil drilling rig, with operator, and a lease on Ida Glenn's land.

A few feet further down, the rig encountered a formation known as the Bartlesville Sand, where Chesley noticed the first trace of oil on the drill bit.

Some of the Creek landowners began earning as much as a million dollars a year from royalties on the production from their 160-acre plots.

The Glen Pool field still produces a relatively small flow of oil in the 21st century, using waterflood techniques.

[15] Glenpool is in Tornado Alley and has a temperate climate of the humid subtropical variety (Köppen Cfa) with a yearly average temperature of 60 °F (16 °C).

Under their former long-time head coach Steve Edwards, Glenpool High School won the Class 4A state football championship in both 2002 and 2008.

[26] Glenpool Boys’ Basketball won the 2020 regional championship under Head Coach Aaron Struck.