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Kay County, Oklahoma
Kay County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Newkirk
Year Organized: 1895
Square Miles: 919 |
Court House: PO Box 450
County Courthouse
Newkirk, OK 74647-0450
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
name was derived by spelling out the letter "K," which was the original official designation of the
county.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Located in northern Oklahoma, Kay County is surrounded by Sumner and Cowley counties in Kansas to the north, Osage
County to the east, Noble County to the south, and Grant County to the west. Kay County lies within the Red Bed Plains
and encompasses 945.12 square miles of land and water. Three streams, the Chikaskia River, the Salt Fork of the Arkansas
River, and the Arkansas River, flow through the county.
At the turn of the twenty-first century the Oklahoma Archaeological Survey reported 427 archaeological sites in Kay
County. Two of those were the Bryson Archaeological Site (listed in the National Register of Historic Places, NR
79001997) and the Deer Creek Site (NR 66000630). In the mid-1700s French voyageurs from Louisiana traded with the
Wichita at these two sites. Early explorers included James B. Wilkinson and George C. Sibley, who came through the area
in 1806 and 1811, respectively. In 1843 Nathan Boone and others passed through the southwest corner of the future county
when he led an expedition from Fort Gibson to the Great Salt Plains.....KAY
COUNTY
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Blackwell |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Braman |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Kaw City |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Kildare |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Newkirk
(County Seat) |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Ponca City |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Tonkawa |
city |
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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