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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

Garfield County, Oklahoma

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

County Seat: Enid
Year Organized: 1895
Square Miles: 1,058

Court House:

100 W Broadway
County Courthouse
Enid, OK 73701-0000

Etymology - Origin of County Name

named for President James A. Garfield.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

History

Located in north-central Oklahoma, Garfield County is bounded on the north by Grant County, on the east by Noble County, on the south by Logan and Kingfisher counties, and on the west by Major and Alfalfa counties. Comprised of 1,059.94 square miles of land and water, Garfield County lies within the Red Bed Plains physiographic region. The county is drained by Black Bear, Boggy, Red Rock, Rock, Skeleton, and Turkey creeks. Named for Pres. James A. Garfield, the county is noted for its wheat production. At the turn of the twenty-first century incorporated towns included Breckinridge, Carrier, Covington, Douglas, Drummond, Fairmont, Garber, Hillsdale, Hunter, Kremlin, Lahoma, Waukomis, North Enid, and Enid, the county seat....GARFIELD COUNTY

Neighboring Counties:

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Cities and Towns:

- Breckenridge	town	Incorporated Area
- Carrier	town	Incorporated Area
- Covington	town	Incorporated Area
- Douglas	town	Incorporated Area
- Drummond	town	Incorporated Area
- Enid (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Fairmont	town	Incorporated Area
- Garber	city	Incorporated Area
- Hillsdale	town	Incorporated Area
- Hunter	town	Incorporated Area
- Kremlin	town	Incorporated Area
- Lahoma	town	Incorporated Area
- North Enid	town	Incorporated Area
- Waukomis	town	Incorporated Area

County Resources:

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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, act locally."

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