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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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Dewey County, Oklahoma
Dewey County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Taloga
Year Organized: 1892
Square Miles: 1,000
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Court House: Box 368
County Courthouse
Taloga, OK 73667-0368
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
was designated as county "D" at the time of the opening of the Cherokee-Arapaho Reservation in 1892 and
continued to be known as County "D" until the general election of 1898 when the people of the county voted that "D" had
stood for Dewey throughout all these years.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Located in west-central Oklahoma, Dewey County is bordered by Woodward and Major counties on the north, Blaine County
on the east, Custer County on the south, and Ellis and Roger Mills counties on the west. Named for Adm. George Dewey,
the county was formerly part of the Cheyenne-Arapaho Reservation. Dewey County is comprised of 1,008.26 square miles of
land and water. Drained by the Canadian and North Canadian rivers it lies mostly in the Gypsum Hills physiographic
region. The western one-fourth of the county is situated in the High Plains region. At the turn of the twenty-first
century incorporated towns included Camargo, Leedey, Oakwood, Putnam, Seiling, Vici, and Taloga, the county seat.....DEWEY
COUNTY
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Camargo |
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- Leedey |
town |
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- Oakwood |
town |
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- Putnam |
town |
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- Seiling |
city |
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- Taloga
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- Vici |
town |
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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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