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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

Carter County, Oklahoma

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

County Seat: Ardmore
Year Organized: 1907
Square Miles: 824

Court House:

PO Box 1544
County Courthouse
Ardmore, OK 73402-1544

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Namedafter 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

County 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:

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Cities and Towns:

- Ardmore (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Dickson	town	Incorporated Area
- Gene Autry	town	Incorporated Area
- Healdton	city	Incorporated Area
- Lone Grove	city	Incorporated Area
- Ratliff City	town	Incorporated Area
- Springer	town	Incorporated Area
- Tatums	town	Incorporated Area
- Wilson	city	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."