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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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McIntosh County, Oklahoma
McIntosh County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Eufaula
Year Organized: 1907
Square Miles: 620
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Court House: PO Box 110
County Courthouse
Eufaula, OK 74432-0110
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
named for a family prominent in the Creek Nation, a number of the members of which were chiefs and
leaders.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Located in eastern Oklahoma, McIntosh County is surrounded by Okmulgee County on the north and west, Okfuskee and
Hughes counties on the west, Muskogee County on the north and east, and Haskell and Pittsburg counties on the south.
Named for the influential Creek family of McIntoshes, the county encompasses 712.48 square miles of land and water.
Because of the convergence of three rivers, the Deep Fork, North Canadian, and Canadian, the area has a long history of
human occupation. In 1964 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed Eufaula Dam, creating Lake Eufaula. As Oklahoma's
largest-surface area lake, it dominates McIntosh County's landscape. At 1907 statehood, when the county was established,
its population stood at 17,975. The county annexed part of Hughes County in 1915 but lost land to Okmulgee County in
1918. At the beginning of the twenty-first century the county's six incorporated towns were Checotah, Eufaula (county
seat), Hanna, Hitchita, Rentiesville, and Stidham.
The county contains more than ninety-two square miles of water area, more than any other Oklahoma county, and with just
under 13 percent of its total land under water, McIntosh County is second only to Marshall County's 13.08 percent. The
creation of Lake Eufaula submerged a large amount of bottomland that had provided fertile fields. Much of the remaining
surface land comprises sandstone hills, often covered in timber....McINTOSH
COUNTY
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Checotah |
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- Eufaula
(County Seat) |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Hanna |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Hitchita |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Rentiesville |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Stidham |
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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