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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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Sequoyah County, Oklahoma
Sequoyah County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Sallisaw
Year Organized: 1907
Square Miles: 674
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Court House: 117 S Oak Street
County Courthouse
Sallisaw, OK 74955-4614
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
named for the Indian who invented the Cherokee alphabet.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
In extreme eastern Oklahoma, Sequoyah County is named for the Sequoyah District of the Cherokee Nation and for
Sequoyah (George Guess), who invented a syllabary (alphabet) that brought literacy to the Cherokee in the early
nineteenth century. The county abuts Arkansas and Fort Smith, prominent in frontier and Indian history, on the east, and
borders Adair and Cherokee counties on the north, Muskogee County on the west, Haskell County on the southwest, and Le
Flore County on the south. At the turn of the twenty-first century Sequoyah County's incorporated towns included Gans,
Gore, Marble City, Moffett, Muldrow, Paradise Hill, Roland, Sallisaw (county seat), and Vian.
Sequoyah County straddles the Ozark Plateau in the north and Ouachita Mountains region in the south. The Arkansas River
forms the southern border and reduces land to bayous, sloughs, and "bottoms." The county also shares characteristics of
the Prairie Plains. Other waterways include the Illinois River, Lee's Creek, and Robert S. Kerr Lake. Local features
include the Cookson Hills to the northwest and Moffett, Paw Paw, and Redland bottoms to the south. The county includes
714.88 square miles of land and water...SEQUOYAH
COUNTY
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Gans |
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- Gore |
town |
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- Marble City |
town |
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- Moffett |
town |
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- Muldrow |
town |
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- Paradise Hill |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Roland |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Sallisaw
(County Seat) |
city |
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- Vian |
town |
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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,
act locally." |
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