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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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Noble County, Oklahoma
Noble County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Perry
Year Organized: 1897
Square Miles: 732
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Court House: 300 Courthouse Drive, Box 11
County Courthouse
Perry, OK 73077-6649
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
named for John W. Noble, Secretary of the Interior in President Harrison’s Cabinet.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Situated in north-central Oklahoma, Noble County consists of 742.44 square miles of land and water area. Bordering
counties include Kay on the north, Garfield on the west, Logan and Payne on the south, and Osage and Pawnee on the east.
Perry is the county seat. Lying within the Osage Plains/Redbed Plains physiographic region, the countryside is marked by
bottom lands of two major creeks and by gently rolling, grassy uplands. Noble County is drained by Red Rock Creek in the
north and by Black Bear Creek in the south; both empty into the Arkansas River, which forms part of the county's
northeastern boundary....NOBLE
COUNTY
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Billings |
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- Marland |
town |
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- Morrison |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Perry
(County Seat) |
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- Red Rock |
town |
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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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