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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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Tillman County, Oklahoma
Tillman County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Frederick
Year Organized: 1907
Square Miles: 872
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Court House: PO Box 992
County Courthouse
Frederick, OK 73542-0992
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
named for Ben Tillman, U. S. Senator from South Carolina.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
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:
Cities and Towns:
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- Davidson |
town |
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- Frederick
(County
Seat) |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Grandfield |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Hollister |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Loveland |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Manitou |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Tipton |
town |
Incorporated Area |
County Resources:
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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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