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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

Pontotoc County, Oklahoma

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

County Seat: Ada
Year Organized: 1907
Square Miles: 720

Court House:

PO Box 1425
County Courthouse
Ada, OK 74821-1425

Etymology - Origin of County Name

the name of one of the counties of the Chickasaw Nation, which, in turn, had been named for Pontotoc Creek in the old Chickasaw country, in Mississippi.

Demographics:

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County History

Pontotoc County is located in south-central Oklahoma, just east of a line dividing the state into its eastern and western segments. Surrounding counties include Seminole, Hughes, Coal, Johnston, Murray, Garvin, McClain, and Pottawatomie. The northern boundary is also marked by the Canadian River. The county incorporates 725.4 square miles of land and water area. Created at 1907 statehood, it took its name from a historic Chickasaw tribal area in Mississippi, which is also mirrored by a county name in that state. The 1832 Treaty of Pontotoc Creek provided for removal of the Chickasaw to Indian Territory. Pontotoc is usually translated "cattail prairie" or "land of hanging grapes."...PONTOTOC COUNTY

Neighboring Counties:

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Cities and Towns:

- Ada (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Allen	town	Incorporated Area
- Byng	town	Incorporated Area
- Fitzhugh	town	Incorporated Area
- Francis	town	Incorporated Area
- Roff	town	Incorporated Area
- Stonewall	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."