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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

Creek County, Oklahoma

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

County Seat: Sapulpa
Year Organized: 1907
Square Miles: 956

Court House:

222 E Dewey Rm 203
County Courthouse
Sapulpa, OK 74066-4208

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Namedfor the Creek Indian tribe. This tribe divides honors with William H. Murray, president of the Constitutional Convention, in that two counties were named for it, namely, Creek and Muskogee.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Located in east-central Oklahoma, Creek County is bordered by Pawnee County on the north, Tulsa and Okmulgee counties on the east, Okfuskee County on the south, and Lincoln and Payne counties on the west. Moman Pruiett, special delegate to the 1906 Oklahoma Constitutional Convention, wanted to name the county Moman, in honor of his mother. However, when the county was established at 1907 statehood, it was named for the Creek tribe. Formerly part of the Creek Nation, Indian Territory, the county lies within the Sandstone Hills physiographic region. With 969.77 square miles of land and water, the county is drained by the Cimarron River, tributaries of the Arkansas River, and the Deep Fork and the Little Deep Fork of the North Canadian River....CREEK COUNTY

Neighboring Counties:

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Cities and Towns:

- Bristow	city	Incorporated Area
- Depew	town	Incorporated Area
- Drumright	city	Incorporated Area
- Kellyville	town	Incorporated Area
- Kiefer	town	Incorporated Area
- Lawrence Creek	town	Incorporated Area
- Mannford	town	Incorporated Area
- Mounds	town	Incorporated Area
- Oilton	city	Incorporated Area
- Sapulpa (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Shamrock	town	Incorporated Area
- Slick	town	Incorporated Area
- Tulsa	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."