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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

Craig County, Oklahoma

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

County Seat: Vinita
Year Organized: 1907
Square Miles: 761

Court House:

Box 397
County Courthouse
Vinita, OK 74301-0397

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Namedfor Granville Craig of Welch, Oklahoma at the instance of W. H. Kornegay, delegate in the Constitutional Convention.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Craig County lies in the northeastern corner of the state. Bordering counties include Ottawa and Delaware counties on the east, Nowata County on the west, Mayes and Rogers counties on the south, and Labette County, Kansas, on the north. The county lies in the Osage Plains, accounting for the large area of fertile, rolling prairies. The Neosho Lowlands, a subdivision of the Osage Plains, extends into the county's eastern and southern portions, creating a rougher environment. The tributaries of the Neosho River drain the county, with Big Cabin Creek the main artery in southern Craig County. By 1981 only seventeen archaeological sites had been discovered. Many of these, such as the Praytor Site and the Heath Site, are of the Woodland (A.D. 1 to 1000) period. By A.D. 1200 most of the Caddoan culture had relocated to the southern courses of the Neosho, Illinois, and Arkansas rivers....CRAIG COUNTY

Neighboring Counties:

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Cities and Towns:

- Big Cabin	town	Incorporated Area
- Bluejacket	town	Incorporated Area
- Pensacola	town	Incorporated Area
- Vinita (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Welch	town	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."