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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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Marshall County, Oklahoma
Marshall County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Madill
Year Organized: 1907
Square Miles: 371 |
Court House: 1 County Courthouse St
Room 106
County Courthouse
Madill, OK 73446-2252
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
named in honor of the mother of George A. Henshaw, delegate to the Constitutional Convention. that
having been her maiden name.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Created at 1907 statehood Marshall County is in south-central Oklahoma, with Johnston County on its north, Bryan on
the east, Love and Carter on the west, and the state of Texas on the south. The county name honors the maiden name of
George Henshaw's mother. Henshaw, a Madill native, served in the 1906 Oklahoma Constitutional Convention. The county
contains 426.95 square miles of land and water area. The incorporated towns are Kingston, Madill (the county seat), and
Oakland.
The county lies in the Coastal Plain physiographic region, accounting for its rolling prairies. There are also
intermittent deposits of limestone. The Red River Basin drains the county. In 1944 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
completed the Denison Dam, impounding the Red and Washita rivers, creating Lake Texoma, and inundating a large amount of
Marshall County's land. The lake not only forms the county's southern border, but it also comprises the eastern border,
which had been the Washita River....MARSHALL
COUNTY
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Kingston |
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- Madill
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- Oakland |
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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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