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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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Seminole County, Oklahoma
Seminole County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Wewoka
Year Organized: 1907
Square Miles: 632
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Court House: 110 S Wewoka Ave, Room 103
County Courthouse
Wewoka, OK 74884-2645
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
named for 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
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:
Cities and Towns:
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- Bowlegs |
town |
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- Cromwell |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Konawa |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Lima |
town |
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- Sasakwa |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Seminole |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Wewoka
(County Seat) |
city |
Incorporated Area |
County Resources:
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Online High Schools
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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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