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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

Nowata County, Oklahoma

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

County Seat: Nowata
Year Organized: 1907
Square Miles: 565

Court House:

229 N Maple St
County Courthouse
Nowata, OK 74048-2654

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Namedfor its county seat town. The name is said to be a corruption of the Delaware Indian word "Noweeta" meaning "welcome."

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Nowata County is located in northeastern Oklahoma. Surrounding Oklahoma counties include Craig on the east, Rogers on the south, and Washington on the west. The Kansas counties of Montgomery and Labette border on the north. Archaeologists believe humans first occupied Nowata County some six centuries ago. Among the first inhabitants were prehistoric American Indians called the "Earth House People" and the "Cave and Ledge People." Three archaeological excavations, the Craig, Lawrence, and Lightning Creek sites, revealed much information about those people. Located in the Verdigris River valley, the sites date from between 1000 to 1500 B.C....NOWATA COUNTY

Neighboring Counties:

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Cities and Towns:

- Delaware	town	Incorporated Area
- Lenapah	town	Incorporated Area
- New Alluwe	town	Incorporated Area
- Nowata (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- South Coffeyville	town	Incorporated Area
- Wann	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."