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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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Roger Mills County, Oklahoma
Roger Mills County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Cheyenne
Year Organized: 1895
Square Miles: 1,142 |
Court House: Box 708
County Courthouse
Cheyenne, OK 73628-0708
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
named by vote of the people of the county, most of whom were recent emigrants from Texas, of which
state Roger Q. Mills was then U. S. senator.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Located in western Oklahoma, Roger Mills County is bounded by Ellis County on the north, Dewey and Custer counties on
the east, Beckham County on the south, and the state of Texas on the west. Named for Texas politician Roger Quarles
Mills, most of the county lies within the High Plains physiographical region, and the southeastern corner is in the
Gypsum Hills region. The Washita and Canadian rivers drain the county. The Antelope Hills (listed in the National
Register of Historic Places, NR 78002259) are located in a bend of the Canadian River in northwestern Roger Mills
County. The county sits atop the petroleum-rich Anadarko Basin. Incorporated towns at the turn of the twenty-first
century included Cheyenne, the county seat, Hammon, Reydon, and Strong City.
Present Roger Mills County was originally part of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Reservation. Before the area was opened for
non-Indian settlers on April 19, 1892, Counties C through H were created. E County became Day County, and F County
became Roger Mills. At 1907 statehood the boundaries of Roger Mills County changed. The southern portion of former Day
County was added to Roger Mills, and the southern portion of Roger Mills was added to Beckham County. On March 17, 1930,
Roger Mills' western boundary was changed after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the true 100th Meridian was actually
thirty-eight hundred feet further east. Roger Mills County came to comprise 1,146.46 square miles of land and water...ROGER
MILLS COUNTY
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Cheyenne
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- Hammon |
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- Reydon |
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- Strong City |
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- Sweetwater |
town |
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County Resources:
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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,
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