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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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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
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
named for 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
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:
Cities and Towns:
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- Beggs |
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- Dewar |
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- Grayson |
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- Henryetta |
city |
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- Hoffman |
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- Morris |
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- Okmulgee
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- Schulter |
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Incorporated Area |
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- Winchester |
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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