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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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Lincoln County, Oklahoma
Lincoln County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Chandler
Year Organized: 1891
Square Miles: 959
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Court House: 811 Manvel Avenue
County Courthouse
Chandler, OK 74834-3880
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
named for President Abraham Lincoln.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Named for Pres. Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln County is located in the east- central part of Oklahoma, bordered on the
north by Payne County and on the south by Pottawatomie County. Creek and Okfuskee counties are to the east and Logan and
Oklahoma counties border on the west. Interstate 44, the Turner Turnpike, crosses diagonally, east to west, through the
county. The Deep Fork of the Canadian River drains the county, which has 965.62 square miles of total land and water
area. The Cross Timbers and the agricultural lands of the Sandstone Hills in the east and the Red Bed Plains in the west
dominate the county's topography and vegetation. At the turn of the twenty-first century incorporated towns included
Agra, Carney, Davenport, Fallis, Kendrick, Meeker, Prague, Sparks, Stroud, Tryon, Warwick, Wellston, and Chander, the
county seat. Lincoln County is located in a region that has been little studied by archaeologists. However, a 1983
published archaeological survey reported that the county has sixty-six known sites, of which only three had been
tested...LINCOLN COUNTY
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Agra |
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- Carney |
town |
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- Chandler
(County Seat) |
city |
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- Davenport |
town |
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- Fallis |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Kendrick |
town |
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- Meeker |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Prague |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Sparks |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Stroud |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Tryon |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Warwick |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Wellston |
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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