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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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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
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
named for Charles N. Haskell, a member of the Constitutional Convention and later elected first
governor of the state.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
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:
Cities and Towns:
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- Keota |
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- Kinta |
town |
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- McCurtain |
town |
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- Stigler
(County Seat) |
city |
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- Tamaha |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Whitefield |
town |
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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