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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

Osage County, Oklahoma

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

County Seat: Pawhuska
Year Organized: 1907
Square Miles: 2,251

Court House:

PO Box 87
County Courthouse
Pawhuska, OK 74056-0087

Etymology - Origin of County Name

the tribal name "Wazhazhe," as spelled by the French settlers of the Mississippi Valley.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Oklahoma's largest county by area, Osage County is located in the north-central part of the state and contains a total land and water area of 2,303.8 square miles. Created at 1907 statehood the county was named for and is home to the Osage tribe and is contiguous with the Osage Nation Reservation. It is surrounded by Washington County on the east, Tulsa County on the east and south, Pawnee County on the south, Noble and Kay counties on the west, and the state of Kansas on the north. Pawhuska is the county seat, and Avant, Barnsdall, Burbank, Fairfax, Foraker, Grainola, Hominy, Osage, Prue, Shidler, Webb City, and Wynona are other incorporated towns. U.S. Highway 60 runs east-west through the county, and state highways include 10, 11, 18, 20, 35, 97, 99, and 123.

Most of Osage County lies in the Osage Plains physiographic region and is characterized by open and rolling prairie. The extreme east-northeastern area of the county is in the Eastern Lowlands region. Eastern Osage County has the Osage Hills, an extension of the Flint Hills of Kansas. Gray Horse, Salt, and Drum creeks drain the county's western and southern sections. These streams flow south into the Arkansas River, which serves as part of the county's southern and western boundaries. Eastern Osage County is drained by the Caney River and Bird, Hominy, and Delaware creeks, which flow east to the Verdigris River. County reservoirs include Lakes Keystone and Kaw, which were impounded on the Arkansas River as well as Hulah, Birch, Bluestem, and Skiatook lakes....OSAGE COUNTY

Neighboring Counties:

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Cities and Towns:

- Avant	town	Incorporated Area
- Barnsdall	city	Incorporated Area
- Burbank	town	Incorporated Area
- Fairfax	town	Incorporated Area
- Foraker	town	Incorporated Area
- Grainola	town	Incorporated Area
- Hominy	city	Incorporated Area
- Osage	town	Incorporated Area
- Pawhuska (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Prue	town	Incorporated Area
- Shidler	city	Incorporated Area
- Skiatook	town	Incorporated Area
- Tulsa	city	Incorporated Area
- Webb City	town	Incorporated Area
- Wynona	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."