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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

Hughes County, Oklahoma

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

County Seat: Holdenville
Year Organized: 1907
Square Miles: 807

Court House:

200 N Broadway Street
County Courthouse
Holdenville, OK 74848-3402

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Namedfor William C. Hughes, member of the Constitutional Convention.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County 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:

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Cities and Towns:

- Atwood	town	Incorporated Area
- Calvin	town	Incorporated Area
- Dustin	town	Incorporated Area
- Gerty	town	Incorporated Area
- Holdenville (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Horntown	town	Incorporated Area
- Lamar	town	Incorporated Area
- Spaulding	town	Incorporated Area
- Stuart	town	Incorporated Area
- Wetumka	city	Incorporated Area
- Yeager	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."