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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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Tulsa County, Oklahoma
Tulsa County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Tulsa
Year Organized: 1907
Square Miles: 570 |
Court House: 500 S. Denver Avenue
County Courthouse
Tulsa, OK 74103-3838
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
named from Tulsey Town, one of the old Creek towns or clans.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Located in eastern Oklahoma, Tulsa County took its name from the already established town of Tulsa. Areas of the old
Creek and Cherokee nations comprise the county. It is bordered on the north by Osage, Washington, and Rogers counties,
on the east by Rogers and Wagoner, on the south by Okmulgee, and on the west by Creek and Osage counties. Tulsa, the
state's second largest populated city, serves as the county seat. Other incorporated towns are Bixby, Broken Arrow,
Collinsville, Glenpool, Jenks, Owasso, Sand Springs, and Sperry.
The Arkansas River drains most of the county, but tributaries of the Verdigris, principally Bird Creek and the Caney
River, drain the northern portion. Tulsa County contains 587.02 miles of land and water area. The landscape embodies
prairies and sandstone hills, with the lowlands of the Arkansas River Valley providing excellent farming soil. In 1965
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed Keystone Dam on the Arkansas River in Tulsa County, creating Keystone Lake.
Most of the lake lies in Osage, Pawnee, and Creek counties....TULSA
COUNTY
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Bixby |
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- Broken Arrow |
city |
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- Collinsville |
city |
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- Glenpool |
city |
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- Jenks |
city |
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- Liberty |
town |
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- Lotsee |
town |
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- Owasso |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Sand Springs |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Sperry |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Tulsa
(County Seat) |
city |
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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,
act locally." |
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