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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

Ottawa County, Oklahoma

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

County Seat: Miami
Year Organized: 1907
Square Miles: 471

Court House:

102 E Central Ave
County Courthouse
Miami, OK 74354-7072

Etymology - Origin of County Name

the tribal name, corruption of "Adawe," meaning to trade or traffic.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Located in Oklahoma's northeastern corner, Ottawa County contains 484.73 square miles of land and water. Created at 1907 statehood the county is bordered by Kansas on the north, Missouri on the east, Delaware County on the south, and Craig County on the west. The name honors the Ottawa tribe.

The environmental setting displays two separate characteristics, the Ozark Plateau and the Osage Plains. The Ozark Plateau of the eastern part of the county gives way to the plains west of the Neosho River. The plains region here has also been classified as the Neosho Lowlands. The Neosho (Grand) and Spring rivers once merged in the county, but they now drain into the Lake O' the Cherokees, known as Grand Lake, impounded in 1940....OTTAWA COUNTY

Neighboring Counties:

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Cities and Towns:

- Afton	town	Incorporated Area
- Bernice	town	Incorporated Area
- Bluejacket	town	Incorporated Area
- Cardin	town	Incorporated Area
- Commerce	city	Incorporated Area
- Fairland	town	Incorporated Area
- Miami (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- North Miami	town	Incorporated Area
- Peoria	town	Incorporated Area
- Picher	city	Incorporated Area
- Quapaw	town	Incorporated Area
- Wyandotte	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."