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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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Coal County, Oklahoma
Coal County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Coalgate
Year Organized: 1907
Square Miles: 518 |
Court House: 4 N Main, Suite 3
County Courthouse
Coalgate, OK 74538-2844
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
named for the county seat, Coalgate, and incidentally from the large coal deposits which underlie much
of the county.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Situated in southeastern Oklahoma, Coal County is bordered by Hughes County on the north, Pittsburg County on the
northeast, Atoka County on the southeast, Johnston County on the southwest, and Pontotoc County on the northwest. At the
turn of the twenty-first century incorporated towns included Centrahoma, Lehigh, Phillips, Tupelo, and Coalgate, the
county seat. The Clear Boggy and Muddy Boggy rivers (creeks) drain the county, which has a total land and water area of
521.3 square miles. Generally, the county has forest in the east, where the foothills of the Ouachita Mountains begin,
and open prairie in the west, and lies generally in the Sandstone Hills physiographic region. Coal County lies within a
region that has been little studied by archaeologists. However, a 1983 published archaeological survey report indicates
that the county has sixty-three known sites, none of which have been tested....COAL
COUNTY
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Centrahoma |
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- Coalgate
(County Seat) |
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- Lehigh |
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- Phillips |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Tupelo |
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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