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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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Carter County, Oklahoma
Carter County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Ardmore
Year Organized: 1907
Square Miles: 824
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Court House: PO Box 1544
County Courthouse
Ardmore, OK 73402-1544
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
named after Captain Ben W. Carter, a Cherokee Indian who married and settled among the Chickasaws and
whose son Charles D. Carter has represented the district including Carter County in congress ever since statehood.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Positioned in south-central Oklahoma, Carter County, created at 1907 statehood, contains 833.72 square miles of land
and water. The name honors the prominent Carter family, distinguished by Charles David Carter of Chickasaw and Cherokee
heritage, who served in Congress from 1907 to 1927. Garvin and Murray counties border Carter County on the north, with
Johnston and Marshall on the east, Love on the south, and Jefferson and Stephens on the west. At the beginning of the
twenty-first century the incorporated towns consisted of Ardmore (county seat), Dickson, Gene Autry, Healdton, Lone
Grove, Ratliff, Springer, Tatums, and Wilson....CARTER
COUNTY
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Ardmore
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- Dickson |
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- Gene Autry |
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- Healdton |
city |
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- Lone Grove |
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- Ratliff City |
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- Springer |
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- Tatums |
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- Wilson |
city |
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County Resources:
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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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