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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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Washita County, Oklahoma
Washita County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Cordell
Year Organized: 1897
Square Miles: 1,004 |
Court House: Box 380
County Courthouse
Cordell, OK 73632-0380
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
named for the Washita River which was called by the French, "Faux Ouachita," literally meaning "false
Washita," in distinction from the true Ouachita, of Arkansas and Louisiana. Evidently the spelling of the name of the
Oklahoma stream was changed by substituting "w" for "ou." The name Washita was that of one of the minor tribes of the
Caddoan stock.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Located in western Oklahoma, Washita County is directly south of Custer County and north of Kiowa County, with Caddo
County on the east and Beckham County on the west. The Washita River drains most of the county, but the southwestern
corner has tributaries that flow into the North Fork of the Red River. The county encompasses a total of 1,009.7 square
miles of land and water area. Located in the Osage Plains, mostly in the Western Redbed Plains subregion, Washita
County's landscape of rolling prairies is ideal for farming and ranching. The county has fewer than six square miles of
surface water....WASHITA
COUNTY
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Bessie |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Burns Flat |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Canute |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Colony |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Cordell
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- Corn |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Dill City |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Foss |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- New Cordell |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Rocky |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Sentinel |
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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