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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

Tillman County, Oklahoma

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

County Seat: Frederick
Year Organized: 1907
Square Miles: 872

Court House:

PO Box 992
County Courthouse
Frederick, OK 73542-0992

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Namedfor Ben Tillman, U. S. Senator from South Carolina.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Located in southwestern Oklahoma, Tillman County was organized at 1907 statehood from a portion of Comanche County. Frederick is the county seat. Tillman County's boundaries changed in 1911 and 1924 when portions of Kiowa County were added. Named for U.S. Sen. Benjamin R. Tillman of South Carolina, Tillman County is bounded by Kiowa County on the north, Comanche and Cotton counties on the east, Jackson County on the west, and the Red River (Texas) on the south. Lying within the Red Bed Plains physiographic region (a subregion of the Osage Plains), Tillman County has 879.21 squares miles of land and water. It is drained by the North Fork of the Red River, Otter Creek, and Deep Red Creek....TILLMAN COUNTY

Neighboring Counties:

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Cities and Towns:

- Davidson	town	Incorporated Area
- Frederick (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Grandfield	city	Incorporated Area
- Hollister	town	Incorporated Area
- Loveland	town	Incorporated Area
- Manitou	town	Incorporated Area
- Tipton	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."