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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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Pawnee County, Oklahoma
Pawnee County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Pawnee
Year Organized: 1897
Square Miles: 570
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Court House: 500 Harrison Street
County Courthouse
Pawnee, OK 74058-2507
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
the tribal name corrupted from "Pariki," meaning horn and refers to the tribal custom of dressing the
scalp locks to resemble a buffalo horn
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Located in north-central Oklahoma, Pawnee County is bordered on the north and east by Osage County and the Arkansas
River, on the south by Creek and Payne counties, and on the west by Noble and Payne counties. Organized as Q County
following the Cherokee Outlet land opening on September 16, 1893, it was renamed Pawnee County in 1894 for the Pawnee
tribe. The western one-third of the county lies in the Red Bed Plains physiographic region, and the Sandstone Hills
region comprises the remaining two-thirds. With 594.87 square miles of land and water, the county is drained by the
Cimarron and Arkansas rivers as well as tributaries such as Black Bear Creek. At the turn of the twenty-first century
incorporated towns included Blackburn, Cleveland, Hallett, Jennings, Maramec, Pawnee (county seat), Quay, Ralston, Shady
Grove, Skedee, Terlton, and Westport....PAWNEE
COUNTY
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Blackburn |
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- Cleveland |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Hallett |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Jennings |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Maramec |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Pawnee
(County Seat) |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Ralston |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Shady Grove |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Skedee |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Terlton |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Westport |
town |
Incorporated Area |
County Resources:
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Online High Schools
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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,
act locally." |
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