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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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Texas County, Oklahoma
Texas County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Guymon
Year Organized: 1907
Square Miles: 2,037
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Court House: PO Box 197
County Courthouse
Guymon, OK 73942-0197
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
named because the No-Mans-Land or Panhandle strip of which it was a part, formed a part of the Texas
session of 1850.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
One of three Oklahoma Panhandle counties created at 1907 statehood from Beaver County (formerly the Public Land
Strip), Texas County is the state's second largest, encompassing 2,048.82 square miles of land and water area. It is
bounded by Cimarron County on the west, by Beaver on the east, and by the states of Kansas and Texas on the north and
south, respectively. In the late 1880s the area was also included in the proposed Cimarron Territory.
Since 1907 Guymon has been the seat of county government. In addition to Guymon, incorporated towns include Goodwell,
Hardesty, Hooker, Optima, Texhoma, and Tyrone.
The county's topography, in the High Plains of the Great Plains physiographic region, is generally flat, with some
rolling hills. The original vegetation comprised various short grasses, mostly bluestem and gramma. Arable sections are
now farmlands, and the remainder generally serves as rangeland for grazing. Numerous playa lakes occur, intermittently
holding water. These include, north of Guymon, Wild Horse Lake, the scene of the Hay Meadow Massacre, an infamous,
four-victim murder of a Kansas posse in the 1880s. The county is drained by the North Canadian River, often called the
Beaver River, and its tributaries, including Coldwater, Hackberry, Goff, Teepee, and Pony creeks. Along these waterways,
the region's few trees, including cottonwood, hackberry, willow, and elm, occur...TEXAS
COUNTY
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Goodwell |
town |
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- Guymon
(County Seat) |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Hardesty |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Hooker |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Optima |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Texhoma |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Tyrone |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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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