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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

Okmulgee County, Oklahoma

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

County Seat: Okmulgee
Year Organized: 1907
Square Miles: 697

Court House:

314 West 7th Street
County Courthouse
Okmulgee, OK 74447-5013

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Namedfor its county seat town which, in turn, was named for one of the old Creek towns or clans.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Located in east-central Oklahoma, Okmulgee County is encircled by Creek County to the west-northwest, Tulsa County on the north, Wagoner County to the northeast, Muskogee County on the east, McIntosh County to the south-southeast, and Okfuskee County on the south-southwest. The county has a total of 702.30 square miles of land and water area. Eastern Okmulgee County lies within the Eastern Lowlands physiographic region and the western part is in the Osage Plains. Deep Fork of the Canadian River and its tributaries are its major stream system. Interstate 40, U.S. Highways 62, 75, 75 ALT, and 266, and State Highways 16, 52, and 56 traverse the county. At the turn of the twenty-first century its incorporated communities included Okmulgee (the county seat), Morris, Henryetta, Beggs, Grayson, Hoffman, Dewar, and Winchester....OKMULGEE COUNTY

Neighboring Counties:

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Cities and Towns:

- Beggs	city	Incorporated Area
- Dewar	town	Incorporated Area
- Grayson	town	Incorporated Area
- Henryetta	city	Incorporated Area
- Hoffman	town	Incorporated Area
- Morris	city	Incorporated Area
- Okmulgee (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Schulter	town	Incorporated Area
- Winchester	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."