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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

Muskogee County, Oklahoma

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

County Seat: Muskogee
Year Organized: 1907
Square Miles: 814

Court House:

3000 North Street
Muskogee, OK 74403-0000

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Namedfrom the city, which in turn was named for the Muskogee or Creek tribe of Indians. The word is a corruption of "Maskoki" said to have been derived from an Algonquin word signifying swamp or marshy land.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Located in eastern Oklahoma, Muskogee County was named for the Muscogee (Creek) Tribe, although its boundaries encompass the Muskogee District of the Creek Nation and a portion of the Illinois and Canadian districts of the Cherokee Nation. This county is bordered by Wagoner and Cherokee counties on the north, Cherokee and Sequoyah counties on the east, Haskell and McIntosh counties on the south, and Okmulgee and McIntosh counties on the west. The city of Muskogee, established in 1872, serves as the county seat. In addition to Muskogee incorporated towns include Boynton, Braggs, Council Hill, Fort Gibson, Haskell, Otkaha, Porum, Summit, Taft, Wainwright, Warner, and Webber Falls.

Three important rivers, the Arkansas, Verdigris, and Neosho (Grand), converge in Muskogee County. The county includes 838.99 square miles of land and water that encompass a varied topography. The western portion is primarily prairie grassland growing over a layer of sandstone that contains pockets of coal, oil, and natural gas. The prairie gives way to the wooded Cookson Hills in the county's eastern section, which is on the western fringe of the Ozark Mountains. The confluence of the Arkansas, Verdigris, and Neosho gave the area the name of Three Forks, and several salt springs attracted abundant game to the region....MUSKOGEE COUNTY

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Cities and Towns:

- Boynton	town	Incorporated Area
- Braggs	town	Incorporated Area
- Council Hill	town	Incorporated Area
- Fort Gibson	town	Incorporated Area
- Haskell	town	Incorporated Area
- Muskogee (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Oktaha	town	Incorporated Area
- Porum	town	Incorporated Area
- Summit	town	Incorporated Area
- Taft	town	Incorporated Area
- Wainwright	town	Incorporated Area
- Warner	town	Incorporated Area
- Webbers Falls	town	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."