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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

Johnston County, Oklahoma

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

County Seat: Tishomingo
Year Organized: 1907
Square Miles: 645

Court House:

403 W Main Street
County Courthouse
Tishomingo, OK 73460-1753

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Namedfor Douglas H. Johnston, Governor of the Chickasaw Nation.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County 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:

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Cities and Towns:

- Bromide	town	Incorporated Area
- Kenefic	town	Incorporated Area
- Mannsville	town	Incorporated Area
- Milburn	town	Incorporated Area
- Mill Creek	town	Incorporated Area
- Ravia	town	Incorporated Area
- Tishomingo (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Wapanucka	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."