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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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Logan County, Oklahoma
Logan County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Guthrie
Year Organized: 1891
Square Miles: 745
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Court House: 312 E Harrison, Room 7
County Courthouse
Guthrie, OK 73044-4956
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
named for General John A. Logan.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Located in north-central Oklahoma, Logan County is bordered by Garfield and Noble counties on the north, Payne and
Lincoln counties on the east, Oklahoma County on the south, and Kingfisher County on the west. Named for U.S. Sen. John
A. Logan of Illinois, the county is drained by the Cimarron River and the Cottonwood and Ephraim creeks. Comprised of
twenty-one townships Logan County lies within the Red Bed Plains physiographic area. The eastern three townships of
North Cimarron, South Cimarron, and Iowa were added to Logan County after the Sac and Fox Land Opening on September 22,
1891, to comprise a total of 748.92 square miles of land and water. At the turn of the twenty-first century incorporated
towns included Cedar Valley, Cimarron City, Coyle, Crescent, Marshall, Meridian, Mulhall, Orlando, and Guthrie, the
county seat....LOGAN
COUNTY
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Cedar Valley |
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- Cimarron City |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Coyle |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Crescent |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Guthrie
(County Seat) |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Langston |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Marshall |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Meridian |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Mulhall |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Orlando |
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,
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