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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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Hughes County, Oklahoma
Hughes County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Holdenville
Year Organized: 1907
Square Miles: 807
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Court House: 200 N Broadway Street
County Courthouse
Holdenville, OK 74848-3402
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
named for William C. Hughes, member of the Constitutional Convention.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Located in southeastern Oklahoma, Hughes County is bordered by Okfuskee County on the north, McIntosh County on the
northeast, Pittsburg County on the southeast, Coal County on the south, Pontotoc County on the southwest, and Seminole
County on the northwest. At the turn of the twenty-first century incorporated towns included Atwood, Calvin, Dustin,
Gerty, Lamar, Spaulding, Stuart, Wetumka, Yeager, and Holdenville, the county seat. Encompassing 814.64 square miles of
total land and water area, Hughes County was carved out of land belonging to the Creek and Choctaw nations. Organized at
1907 statehood with 19,945 residents, the county was named for W. C. Hughes, an Oklahoma City lawyer and member of the
Oklahoma Constitutional Convention. Located in the Sandstone Hills physiographic region, the county is drained by the
North Canadian, Canadian, and Little rivers. Prehistory of the area has been revealed in eight sites dating to the
Archaic period (6000 B.C. to A.D. 1), one to the Woodland period (A.D. 1 to 1000), and eleven to the Plains Village
period (A.D. 1000 to 1500). Of significance is the Red Stick Man Site, where a pictograph representing a human figure
was drawn on the ceiling inside a sandstone shelter....HUGHES
COUNTY
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Atwood |
town |
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- Calvin |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Dustin |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Gerty |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Holdenville
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Seat) |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Horntown |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Lamar |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Spaulding |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Stuart |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Wetumka |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Yeager |
town |
Incorporated Area |
County Resources:
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Online High Schools
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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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