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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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Garvin County, Oklahoma
Garvin County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Pauls Valley
Year Organized: 1907
Square Miles: 809
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Court House: PO Box 237
County Courthouse
Pauls Valley, OK 73075-0237
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
named for Samuel Garvin of Pauls Valley, a prominent intermarried citizen of the Chickasaw Nation.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1906 formed Garvin County from a part of the former Recording District
17 in the Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory. Located in south-central Oklahoma, the 813.66-square-mile county is
bordered by McClain County to the north, Pontotoc County to the east, Murray and Carter counties to the south, and
Stephens and Grady counties to the west. Incorporated towns are Pauls Valley, the county seat, Elmore City, Lindsay,
Maysville, Paoli, Stratford, and Wynnewood.
Garvin County lies within the Red Bed Plains and Sandstone Hills physiographic regions. The Washita River, Rush
Creek, and Wildhorse Creek flow southeast across rolling hills toward the Arbuckle Mountains in the south.
Interstate 35 and State Highways 74, 76, and 18 run north and south through the county, while State Highways 7, 19,
and 29 remain the principal east-west thoroughfares. At 1907 statehood the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
connected Paoli, Pauls Valley, and Wynnewood along the eastern edge of the county, while an east-west line linked
Pauls Valley with Lindsay. The Lindsay line was abandoned after 1978, but the north-south route remained in
operation through 1990. Starting in 1999 the Heartland Flyer, an Amtrak passenger line from Oklahoma City to Fort
Worth, Texas, stopped twice daily at Pauls Valley's restored Santa Fe depot...GARVIN
COUNTY
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Elmore City |
town |
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- Katie |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Lindsay |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Maysville |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Paoli |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Pauls Valley
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Seat) |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Stratford |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Wynnewood |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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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