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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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McCurtain County, Oklahoma
McCurtain County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Idabel
Year Organized: 1907
Square Miles: 1,852
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Court House: PO Box 1078
County Courthouse
Idabel, OK 74745-1078
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
named for a prominent Choctaw family, three members of which, brothers, were principal chiefs of the
Choctaw Nation.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
At 1907 statehood McCurtain County was established with Idabel designated as the county seat. The name McCurtain
honored a prominent Choctaw family, three of whom had served as principal chiefs of the tribe. The county occupies the
extreme southeastern corner of the state, sharing boundaries with Arkansas on the east and Texas on the south. It
adjoins Le Flore County on the north and Pushmataha and Choctaw counties on the west. McCurtain County possesses a total
land and water area of 1,901.32 square miles and is the third largest county in the state. At the end of the twentieth
century the incorporated towns were Broken Bow, Garvin, Haworth, Idabel (county seat), Millerton, Valliant, and Wright
City.
The county's topography is varied, extending from the rugged foothills of the Ouachita Mountains in the north to the
fertile Coastal Plain region along the Red River, which forms the southern boundary. The land slopes generally downward
from the northwest to the southeast. Four rivers provide drainage, flowing to the south and southeast: the Red, Little,
Mountain Fork, and Glover. The Little and Mountain Fork have been dammed to create two major reservoirs, which provide
an abundance of water for both domestic and industrial use. The climate of McCurtain County is generally warm, moist,
and subtropical with mild winters and a growing season averaging about two hundred days. Precipitation averages about
fifty inches per year...McCURTAIN
COUNTY
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Broken Bow |
city |
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- Garvin |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Haworth |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Idabel
(County Seat) |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Millerton |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Valliant |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Wright City |
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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