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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

Pittsburg County, Oklahoma

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

County Seat: McAlester
Year Organized: 1907
Square Miles: 1,306

Court House:

115 E Carl Albert Parkway
County Courthouse
McAlester, OK 74501-5020

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Namedfor the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the final "h" having been dropped.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Located in east-central Oklahoma, Pittsburg County, created at 1907 statehood, incorporates 1,377.85 square miles of land and water. Because of the county's early coal production, leaders suggested the name Pittsburg, referring to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, comparing the county's large coal quantity to the northern state. The county borders McIntosh County on the north, Haskell and Latimer on the east, Atoka and Pushmataha to the south, and Hughes and Coal counties on the west. At the turn of the twenty-first century Pittsburg County's incorporated towns included Alderson, Ashland, Canadian, Crowder, Haileyville, Hartshorne, Indianola, Kiowa, Krebs, McAlester (county seat), Pittsburg, Quinton, and Savanna.

Pittsburg County is generally hilly and in places mountainous. The Ouachita Mountains extend into the southeastern portion, with sandstone hills contributing to most of the landscape in the northern and western sections. The Canadian River and Lake Eufaula form the northern boundary and drains most of Pittsburg County. A few creeks and streams, including Jack Fork Creek, drain into Boggy Creek and the Kiamichi River and eventually into the Red River....PITTSBURG COUNTY

Neighboring Counties:

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Cities and Towns:

- Alderson	town	Incorporated Area
- Ashland	town	Incorporated Area
- Canadian	town	Incorporated Area
- Crowder	town	Incorporated Area
- Haileyville	city	Incorporated Area
- Hartshorne	city	Incorporated Area
- Indianola	town	Incorporated Area
- Kiowa	town	Incorporated Area
- Krebs	city	Incorporated Area
- McAlester (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Pittsburg	town	Incorporated Area
- Quinton	town	Incorporated Area
- Savanna	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."