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Jackson County, Oklahoma

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

 

County Seat: Altus
Year Organized: 1907
Square Miles: 803		 Court House:

101 N Main Street
County Courthouse
Altus, OK 73521-3144
Etymology - Origin of County Name

named for President Andrew Jackson.

 

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

History

Located in southwestern Oklahoma, Jackson County is bounded by Greer County on the north, Kiowa and Tillman counties on the east, Harmon County on the west, and the Red River and Texas on the south. Altus is the county seat. Named for two notable southerners, Pres. Andrew Jackson and Confederate Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, the county has 804.15 square miles of land and water. Jackson County is drained by the Red River and its tributaries, the North Fork and the Salt Fork of the Red River, and Turkey and Gypsum creeks. Most of the county lies within the Red Bed Plains physiographic region. Approximately the western third of the county is situated in the Gypsum Hills region, while the northeastern corner is in the Wichita Mountains region....JACKSON COUNTY

 

Neighboring Counties:
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Cities and Towns:
- Altus (County Seat) city Incorporated Area
- Blair town Incorporated Area
- East Duke town Incorporated Area
- Eldorado town Incorporated Area
- Elmer town Incorporated Area
- Friendship town Incorporated Area
- Headrick town Incorporated Area
- Martha town Incorporated Area
- Olustee town Incorporated Area
County Resources:

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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, act locally."
 

 

 

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