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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

Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma

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

County Seat: Shawnee
Year Organized: 1891
Square Miles: 788

Court House:

14101 Acme Road
County Courthouse
Shawnee, OK 74804-0000

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Namedfor an Indian tribe, a corruption of the Algonquin term "Pottawatomink," meaning "people of the place of fire."

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Bordered by Lincoln County to the north, Okfuskee and Seminole counties to the east, Pontotoc and McClain counties to the south, and Cleveland and Oklahoma counties to the west, Pottawatomie County is situated in east-central Oklahoma. The county encompasses 793.26 square miles of total land and water area and is drained by the North Canadian, Canadian, and Little rivers. Most of the county lies in the Sandstone Hills physiographic region. At the turn of the twenty-first century incorporated towns included Asher, Bethel Acres, Brooksville, Earlsboro, Johnson, Macomb, Maud, McLoud, Pink, Saint Louis, Shawnee (county seat), Tecumseh, Tribbey, and Wanette....POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY

Neighboring Counties:

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Cities and Towns:

- Asher	town	Incorporated Area
- Bethel Acres	town	Incorporated Area
- Brooksville	town	Incorporated Area
- Earlsboro	town	Incorporated Area
- Johnson	town	Incorporated Area
- Macomb	town	Incorporated Area
- Maud	city	Incorporated Area
- McLoud	town	Incorporated Area
- Pink	town	Incorporated Area
- Shawnee (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- St. Louis	town	Incorporated Area
- Tecumseh	city	Incorporated Area
- Tribbey	town	Incorporated Area
- Wanette	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."