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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

Garvin County, Oklahoma

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

County Seat: Pauls Valley
Year Organized: 1907
Square Miles: 809

Court House:

PO Box 237
County Courthouse
Pauls Valley, OK 73075-0237

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Namedfor Samuel Garvin of Pauls Valley, a prominent intermarried citizen of the Chickasaw Nation.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County 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:

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Cities and Towns:

- Elmore City	town	Incorporated Area
- Katie	town	Incorporated Area
- Lindsay	city	Incorporated Area
- Maysville	town	Incorporated Area
- Paoli	town	Incorporated Area
- Pauls Valley (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Stratford	town	Incorporated Area
- Wynnewood	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."