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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

Stephens County, Oklahoma

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

County Seat: Duncan
Year Organized: 1907
Square Miles: 877

Court House:

101 S 11th Street, Room 200
County Courthouse
Duncan, OK 73533-4758

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Namedfor John H. Stephens, congressman from Texas, who took great interest in Indian Territory legislation just prior to statehood.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Located in south-central Oklahoma Stephens County is bordered by Comanche, Grady, and Garvin counties on the north, Garvin and Carter counties on the east, Jefferson County on the south, and Comanche and Cotton counties on the west. Named for Texas politician John H. Stephens, the county was organized at 1907 statehood from part of the Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory, and part of Comanche County, Oklahoma Territory. Comprised of 891.12 squares miles of land and water, Stephens County lies within the Red Bed Plains physiographic region. The county has no major river but is drained by numerous creeks. The Wildhorse Creek in eastern Stephens County drains into the Washita River, and Beaver Creek in the western part of the county flows into the Red River. At the turn of the twenty-first century incorporated towns included Bray, Central High, Comanche, Empire City, Loco, Marlow, Velma, and Duncan, the county seat....STEPHENS COUNTY

Neighboring Counties:

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Cities and Towns:

- Bray	town	Incorporated Area
- Central High	town	Incorporated Area
- Comanche	city	Incorporated Area
- Duncan (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Empire City	town	Incorporated Area
- Foster	town	Incorporated Area
- Loco	town	Incorporated Area
- Marlow	city	Incorporated Area
- Velma	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."