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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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Kingfisher County, Oklahoma
Kingfisher County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Kingfisher
Year Organized: 1890
Square Miles: 903 |
Court House: 101 S Main, Room 9
County Courthouse
Kingfisher, OK 73750-3241
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
named for its county seat town which in turn was named for the creek. There has been a dispute as to the origin
of the name of the creek. Some contend that it was named for the piscatorial bird which dives into its waters while
others stoutly maintain that it was named for a cattle man, King Fisher, whose ranch headquarters were located in
its valley. The facts are as follows: Two ranchmen—an uncle and nephew—by the name of Fisher were located in the
vicinity of Kingfisher at an early day. The uncle had his ranch on one creek which was called, for him, Uncle John’s
Creek, and is so named to this day. The nephew, whose first name was King, had his ranch on the other creek and, for
him, it was called and is still called King Fisher Creek.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Bordered by Major and Garfield counties on the north, Logan on the east, Canadian on the south, and Blaine on the
west, Kingfisher County is crossed by U.S. Highway 81 north-south and by State Highways 33/3 and 51 east-west. The
Cimarron River slices diagonally through the county, entering near the northwest corner and exiting into Logan County at
midboundary.
Kingfisher County's 906 square miles of land and water area lies in the Red Bed Plains of the Osage Plains physiographic
region. The topography is characterized by low, rolling hills. Before the agricultural era, prairie grasslands
prevailed, and about one-sixth of the area was covered with oak timber. The breaks of the Cimarron River and its
tributary creeks, including Turkey Creek from the north and Uncle John Creek and Kingfisher Creek from the south, are
populated with cedar and some deciduous trees. Limited archaeological surveys revealed that precontact peoples,
including Paleo-Indian and Archaic groups, may have used the area for foraging and hunting may have included Archaic-era
(6000 B.C. to 1 A.D.) groups. The historic Osage, Cheyenne, and Comanche also accessed the broad prairies as they
traveled in search of subsistence....KINGFISHER
COUNTY
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Cashion |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Dover |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Hennessey |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Kingfisher
(County
Seat) |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Loyal |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Okarche |
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,
act locally." |
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