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Oklahoma Counties
There are seventy-seven counties in Oklahoma. Oklahoma is ranked 20th size and 17th in the
number of counties, between Mississippi with 82 counties and Arkansas with 75 counties.
Oklahoma originally had seven counties when it was first organized as the Oklahoma Territory. These counties
were designated numerically, first through seventh. New counties added after this were designated by letters of
the alphabet. The first seven counties were later renamed. The Oklahoma Constitutional Convention named all of
the counties that were formed when Oklahoma entered statehood in 1907. Only two counties have been formed since
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Oklahoma Counties
When Oklahoma Territory was established in 1890 seven counties were outlined and were designated first, second,
third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh respectively. Thereafter as other counties were added, when additional lands
were thrown upon to settlement, they were designated by the letters of the alphabet. Later on, by vote of the people,
county names were adopted.
The first seven counties, designated by numbers, later took the following names: Logan, Cleveland, Oklahoma, Canadian,
Kingfisher, Payne and Beaver.
When the Kiowa-Comanche and Wichita-Caddo Reservations were opened to settlement in 1901, the Secretary of the Interior
caused the boundaries of the three counties to be defined and their names assigned by executive proclamation.
The Constitutional Convention named all of the counties which were formed from that part of the state of Oklahoma which
was included in the Indian Territory together with several new counties which were formed from portions of Oklahoma
Territory. Two new counties have been formed and named since the state was admitted to the Union.
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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic
features of our country!"
But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.
Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally,
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