Sand Springs is a city in Osage, Creek and Tulsa counties in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.

Page helped found and develop Sand Springs as a model city that included all components of a total community.

[5] Page bought 160 acres of land in Tulsa County in 1908, intending to build a home for orphan children.

Page decided to form a model community, to be called Sand Springs, on land west of the children's home.

[6] In 1911, Page also built the Sand Springs Power Plant, on the southeast corner of Main Street and Morrow Road.

Several significant additions were made to the facility, and it was the sole source of electric power for Sand Springs until 1947.

Medical and social welfare institutions other than the Sand Springs Home included the Oakwood Sanitorium for nervous and mental diseases, Poole Hospital, the Salvation Army Maternity Home, and the Sand Springs School for the Deaf.

[8] In 1965, Sand Springs annexed Prattville, on the south side of the Arkansas River, an event that would explain the large jump in population in the 1960s.

On April 4th, a brawl between union and non-union workers broke out at the gates of Commander Mills, ending in several injuries and one arrest.

[17] The Charles Page Family Village, formerly known as the Widow's colony, provides duplex housing to 110 mothers and their children at no cost for rent, utilities or home maintenance.

[16] An EF2 tornado hit Sand Springs on March 25, 2015, killing one resident, injuring 30 citizens, and damaging 50 mobile homes.

According to the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture, the most significant businesses in 2000 were: Webco Industries, Sheffield Steel Corporation, Rader Diagnostic Center, Smith-Fibercast, Cust-O-Fab, Piping Companies Incorporated, and Baker Petrolite.

[31][32] Each year, around Halloween, the Charles Page High School softball and baseball teams don Halloween costumes for the annual Monster Ball, and the money raised benefits the Sand Springs Special Olympic athletes.

Baseball players must bat the opposite of their dominant hand, and there is an unlimited amount of positions on the field.

Sand Springs has a multitude of Youth Sports that include Baseball, Basketball, Tennis, Football, Wrestling, Track, and others.

In order to fund the necessary repairs, the BMX track had to sell fireworks and partner with other companies.

As part of the repair and refurbishment the track worked with a BMX expert help rebuild the course to the standards of the organization.

[39] Case Community Center is a 26,000-square-foot multi-purpose facility capable of hosting a variety of events, and includes a variety of amenities such as basketball, walking track, weight equipment, table tennis, and gaming stations.

[40] The Keystone Ancient Forest features hiking trails in a classic Oklahoma cross timbers forest with 500-year-old cedars and 300-year-old post oak trees, all inside a 1,360-acre nature preserve[41] owned by the City of Sand Springs and protected by a conservation easement held by The Nature Conservancy.

[42] As of 2021, the Forest had a newly opened million-dollar visitor center, an additional walking trail, and expanded hiking hours.

[42] The Canyons at Blackjack Ridge is a public 18-hole golf course and driving range in the hills north of Sand Springs.

[46] William R. Pogue Municipal Airport (ICAO identifier KOWP, FAA identifier OWP), owned by the City of Sand Springs, has a paved 5,800-foot-long by 100-foot-wide runway, that is located 4 miles northwest of the central business area of the city, and serves mostly general aviation aircraft.

On April 21, 2015, the Tulsa World announced that its parent company BH Media,[54] a division of Berkshire Hathaway, the Omaha-based investment holding company led by billionaire Warren Buffett, had purchased several suburban newspapers, including the Sand Springs Leader.