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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

Haskell County, Oklahoma

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

County Seat: Stigler
Year Organized: 1907
Square Miles: 577

Court House:

202 E Main Street
County Courthouse
Stigler, OK 74462-2439

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Namedfor Charles N. Haskell, a member of the Constitutional Convention and later elected first governor of the state.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Located in southeastern Oklahoma, Haskell County, created at 1907 statehood, encompasses 625.27 square miles of land and water area. The county name honors Charles N. Haskell, Oklahoma's first governor and a member of the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention. Haskell County's 1907 population stood at 16,865, and in that year Stigler defeated Keota and Whitefield in a competition for the county seat. At the beginning of the twenty-first century six incorporated towns existed in the county: Stigler, Tamaha, Whitefield, Kinta, Keota, and McCurtain.,..HASKELL COUNTY

Neighboring Counties:

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Cities and Towns:

- Keota	town	Incorporated Area
- Kinta	town	Incorporated Area
- McCurtain	town	Incorporated Area
- Stigler (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Tamaha	town	Incorporated Area
- Whitefield	town	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."