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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

Caddo County, Oklahoma

Caddo County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

County Seat: Anadarko
Year Organized: 1891
Square Miles: 1,278

Court House:

PO Box 1427
County Courthouse
Anadarko, OK 73005-1427

Etymology - Origin of County Name

named for the Caddo tribe of Indians. The name is said to have meant "principal people" in their own language.

Demographics:

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History

Located in west-central Oklahoma, Caddo County is bordered on the north by Blaine and Canadian counties, on the east by Grady County, on the south by Comanche County, and on the west by Kiowa, Washita, and Custer counties. Most of Caddo County is situated in the Gypsum Hills and Red Bed Plains physiographic regions with the exception of the far southwestern corner that lies in the Wichita Mountains region. Comprised of 1,290.31 square miles of land and water, the county is drained by the Washita River and various creeks such as Sugar and Pond. The Canadian River passes through the northeastern corner of Caddo County. Streams have cut deep canyons such as Red Rock Canyon near Hinton and Devil's Canyon near Lookeba. Outcrops south of Hydro are known as the Twin Mounds, Ghost Mound, Dead Woman Mound, and Rock Mary. At the turn of the twenty-first century incorporated towns included Anadarko, the county seat, Apache, Binger, Bridgeport, Carnegie, Cement, Cyril, Eakly, Fort Cobb, Gracemont, Hinton, Hydro, and Lookeba....CADDO COUNTY

Neighboring Counties:

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Cities and Towns:

- Anadarko (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Apache	town	Incorporated Area
- Binger	town	Incorporated Area
- Bridgeport	city	Incorporated Area
- Carnegie	town	Incorporated Area
- Cement	town	Incorporated Area
- Cyril	town	Incorporated Area
- Eakly	town	Incorporated Area
- Fort Cobb	town	Incorporated Area
- Gracemont	town	Incorporated Area
- Hinton	town	Incorporated Area
- Hydro	town	Incorporated Area
- Lookeba	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, act locally."

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