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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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Okfuskee County, Oklahoma
Okfuskee County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Okemah
Year Organized: 1907
Square Miles: 625
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Court House: PO Box 26
County Courthouse
Okemah, OK 74859-0026
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
named for one of the Creek Indian towns or clans.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Located in east-central Oklahoma, Okfuskee County is bordered by Creek County on the north, Okmulgee and McIntosh
counties on the east, Hughes and Seminole counties on the south, and Lincoln and Pottawatomie counties on the west.
Organized at 1907 statehood, the county is named for a former Creek town in present Cleburne County, Alabama. At the
turn of the twenty-first century incorporated towns included Bearden, Boley, Castle, Clearview, Paden, Weleetka, and
Okemah, the county seat. Formerly part of the Creek Nation, Indian Territory, Okfuskee County has 628.91 acres of land
and water. Lying within the Sandstone Hills physiographic region, the county is drained by the Deep Fork of the Canadian
River in the northeastern corner and by the North Canadian River, which forms its southern boundary with Seminole
County. Okfuskee County lies within a region that has been little studied by archaeologists. However, a 1983 published
archaeological survey reported forty known sites, of which one has been tested....OKFUSKEE
COUNTY
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Bearden |
town |
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- Boley |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Castle |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Clearview |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- IXL |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Okemah
(County Seat) |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Paden |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Weleetka |
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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