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Oklahoma Counties
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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
then
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Adair County, Oklahoma
Adair County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Stilwell
Year Organized: 1907
Square Miles: 576 |
Court House: PO Box 88
County Courthouse
Stilwell, OK 74960-0088
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
named for a prominent Cherokee family of which perhaps the most noted member was Col. William Penn
Adair, who represented the Cherokee Nation at Washington from 1866 until his death in 1881.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Located in northeastern Oklahoma, Adair County is bounded on the east by the state of Arkansas. Cherokee County
borders Adair to the west, to the north is Delaware County, and to the south is Sequoyah County. The county's major
highways are U.S. Highway 62, an east-west route, and U.S. Highway 59, a north-south road. Other east-west routes
include State Highways 51 and 100. Adair County has 577.03 square miles of land and water. The region is part of the
Ozark plateau uplift, which are the tree-covered foothills of the Boston Mountains. The north and central portions of
Adair County are drained by the Illinois River and Barren Fork, Evansville, and Caney creeks. Near Stilwell are Sallisaw
and Little Lee creeks...
ADAIR COUNTY
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Stilwell
(County Seat) |
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- Watts |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Westville |
town |
Incorporated Area |
County Resources:
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County Resource Guide
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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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