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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

Custer County, Oklahoma

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

County Seat: Arapaho
Year Organized: 1891
Square Miles: 987

Court House:

PO Box 300, 675 B St
County Courthouse
Arapaho, OK 73620-0300

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Namedfor Gen. George A. Custer.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Following the Cheyenne-Arapaho Opening on April 19, 1892, Custer County came into existence as G County, with Arapaho designated as the county seat. In a general election held in November 1896, G County became known as Custer, in honor of Lt. Col. George A. Custer. Located in west-central Oklahoma, Custer County is bordered by Dewey County on the north, Blaine and Caddo counties on the east, Washita County on the south, and Beckham and Roger Mills counties on the west. The Canadian River flows across the northeastern corner of the county. Drained by the Washita River, Custer County has 1,002 square miles of land and water. It lies mostly within the Gypsum Hills physiographic region. At the turn of the twenty-first century incorporated towns included Butler, Clinton, Custer City, Thomas, Weatherford, and Arapaho, the county seat....CUSTER COUNTY

Neighboring Counties:

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Cities and Towns:

- Arapaho (County Seat)	town	Incorporated Area
- Butler	town	Incorporated Area
- Clinton	city	Incorporated Area
- Custer City	town	Incorporated Area
- Thomas	city	Incorporated Area
- Weatherford	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."