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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

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

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

County 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:

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Cities and Towns:

- Blackwell	city	Incorporated Area
- Braman	town	Incorporated Area
- Kaw City	city	Incorporated Area
- Kildare	town	Incorporated Area
- Newkirk (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Ponca City	city	Incorporated Area
- Tonkawa	city	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."