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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

Seminole County, Oklahoma

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

County Seat: Wewoka
Year Organized: 1907
Square Miles: 632

Court House:

110 S Wewoka Ave, Room 103
County Courthouse
Wewoka, OK 74884-2645

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Namedfor the Indian tribe, the name being a corruption of "Seminola," a Creek Indian word for "seceder" or "runaway," the Seminole tribe having originally been an offshoot of the Creek tribe.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Located approximately fifty miles east of Oklahoma City along Interstate 40, Seminole County extends from the North Canadian River south to the Canadian River. The county is bordered by Pottawatomie County to the north and west, Pontotoc County to the south, Hughes County to the east, and Okfuskee to the east and north. Seminole County encompasses 640.57 square miles of total land and water area in the Sandstone Hills region of east-central Oklahoma. At the turn of the twenty-first century incorporated towns included Bowlegs, Cromwell, Konawa, Lima, Sasakwa, Wewoka, and Seminole, the county seat....SEMINOLE COUNTY

Neighboring Counties:

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Cities and Towns:

- Bowlegs	town	Incorporated Area
- Cromwell	town	Incorporated Area
- Konawa	city	Incorporated Area
- Lima	town	Incorporated Area
- Sasakwa	town	Incorporated Area
- Seminole	city	Incorporated Area
- Wewoka (County Seat)	city	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."