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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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Comanche County, Oklahoma
Comanche County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Lawton
Year Organized: 1907
Square Miles: 1,069
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Court House: 315 SW 5th Street, Room 303
County Courthouse
Lawton, OK 73501-4326
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
named for the Indian tribe, a corruption of the Spanish word "Camanche," possibly derived from Camino
Ancho (i. e., broad road), referring to the great trail over which the Comanches raided from the Great Plains into the
country south of the Rio Grande. In other words Comanche may have meant "the Indians of the Broad Road," thus the word
Comanche being a contraction or combination of two words.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Named for the Comanche tribe, Comanche County lies within the Wichita Mountains region and the Red Bed Plains. The
county is drained by the West Cache, Cache, and Beaver creeks. Originally part of the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Reservation,
the area was opened to non-Indian settlement by lottery on August 6, 1901. The county and the county seat of Lawton were
created on that day. In December 1906 the south-central part of Comanche County known as the Big Pasture was opened for
settlement by sealed bids. Located in southwestern Oklahoma, Comanche County is bordered on the north by Kiowa and Caddo
counties, on the east by Grady and Stephens counties, on the south by Cotton and Tillman counties, and on the west by
Tillman and Kiowa counties....COMANCHE
COUNTY
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Cache |
city |
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- Chattanooga |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Elgin |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Faxon |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Fletcher |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Geronimo |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Indiahoma |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Lawton
(County Seat) |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Medicine Park |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Sterling |
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,
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