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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

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

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:

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County 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:

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Cities and Towns:

- Stilwell (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Watts	town	Incorporated Area
- Westville	town	Incorporated Area

County Resources:

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County Resources

The history of our nation was a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names given the counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of this 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, act locally."