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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

Murray County, Oklahoma

Murray County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

County Seat: Sulphur
Year Organized: 1907
Square Miles: 418

Court House:

PO Box 240
County Courthouse
Sulphur, OK 73086-0240

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Namedfor William H. Murray, president of the Constitutional Convention.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Murray County is located in the southeastern quarter of Oklahoma, surrounded by Garvin, Pontotoc, Johnston, and Carter counties. Named for William H. "Alfalfa Bill" Murray, president of the 1906 Constitutional Convention, Murray County has a total of 424.92 square miles of land and water, making it the third-smallest county in the state. The county's northern section lies in the Sandstone Hills physiographic region and is suitable for farming, while the southern portion is in the Arbuckle Mountains region, which is dominated by rolling hills and rock outcrops. The Washita River drains the county and is fed by Falls and Rock creeks, among others. Lake of the Arbuckles was completed on Rock Creek in 1966....MURRAY COUNTY

Neighboring Counties:

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Cities and Towns:

- Davis	city	Incorporated Area
- Dougherty	town	Incorporated Area
- Hickory	town	Incorporated Area
- Sulphur (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area

County Resources:

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County Resources

The history of our nation was a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names given the counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of this 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."