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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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Johnston County, Oklahoma
Johnston County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Tishomingo
Year Organized: 1907
Square Miles: 645
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Court House: 403 W Main Street
County Courthouse
Tishomingo, OK 73460-1753
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
named for Douglas H. Johnston, Governor of the Chickasaw Nation.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Located in south-central Oklahoma, Johnston County contains 658.29 square miles of total land and water area. It is
bordered by Pontotoc County to the north, Coal and Atoka counties to the east, Bryan and Marshall counties to the south,
and Carter and Murray counties to the west. The county was created at 1907 statehood, the name honoring Douglas H.
Johnston, governor of the Chickasaw Nation in 1898-1902 and 1904-1939. Tishomingo is the county seat, and Bromide,
Mannsville, Milburn, Mill Town, Ravia, and Wapanucka are other incorporated towns. U.S. Highway 377/State Highway 99
runs north-south through the county, connecting Ada to Tishomingo. Other state highways include 1, 7, 22, 48, 48A, and
78.
The county's northern portion lies in the Arbuckle Mountains physiographic region and is dominated by rock outcrops
and rolling hills, while the far southern section is in the Coastal Plains region, which is more suitable to
farming. The Washita and Blue rivers and Pennington Creek drain the county as part of the Red River basin. A
northern appendage of Lake Texoma protrudes into southern Johnston County, southeast of Tishomingo....JOHNSTON
COUNTY
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Bromide |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Kenefic |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Mannsville |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Milburn |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Mill Creek |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Ravia |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Tishomingo
(County
Seat) |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Wapanucka |
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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