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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

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

Namedfor President Andrew Jackson.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County 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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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."