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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

Pawnee County, Oklahoma

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

County Seat: Pawnee
Year Organized: 1897
Square Miles: 570

Court House:

500 Harrison Street
County Courthouse
Pawnee, OK 74058-2507

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

County 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:

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Cities and Towns:

- Blackburn	town	Incorporated Area
- Cleveland	city	Incorporated Area
- Hallett	town	Incorporated Area
- Jennings	town	Incorporated Area
- Maramec	town	Incorporated Area
- Pawnee (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Ralston	town	Incorporated Area
- Shady Grove	town	Incorporated Area
- Skedee	town	Incorporated Area
- Terlton	town	Incorporated Area
- Westport	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."