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Oklahoma Counties
There are seventy-seven counties in Oklahoma. 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 thenLincoln County, Oklahoma
Lincoln County Education, Geography, and History
Lincoln County is a county located in east central Oklahoma. Based on the 2010 census, the population was 34,273. Its county seat is Chandler.
Lincoln County is part of the Oklahoma City, OK Metropolitan Statistical Area.
In 2010, the center of population of Oklahoma was located in Lincoln County, near the town of Sparks
Etymology - Origin of Lincoln County Name
Named for President Abraham Lincoln.
Demographics:
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Lincoln County History
The United States purchased the large tract of land known as the Louisiana Purchase from France in 1803. Washington
Irving, Charles J. Latrobe, and Count Albert de Pourtalès accompanied Henry L. Ellsworth and others on an expedition in Indian Territory that
may have passed through the far northwestern corner of the future Lincoln County.
The Osage hunted on land that includes present-day Lincoln County until they ceded the area in an 1825 treaty to the federal government. The
government then assigned the land to the Creek and the Seminoles after they were removed from the southeastern United States. After the Civil
War in 1866, these tribes were forced to give up lands that included present-day Lincoln County in Reconstruction Treaties for siding with the
Confederacy.
The federal government then used the area to resettle the Sac and Fox, Potawatomi, Kickapoo and Ioway tribes. Established in 1870, the Sac and
Fox agency, established on the eastern edge of the present-day county, was the first settlement in the area.
In 1890, the Jerome Commission negotiated with the tribes of the area such that they agreed to allotment of their reservation lands, except
for the Kickapoo. Indian lands were allotted to individual tribal members and the excess were opened to white settlement in the Land Run of
1891. A separate land run was held later that year for the townsite of the predesignated county seat, Chandler. Lincoln County was organized
and designated as County A. In 1895, the Kickapoo agreed to allotment and the land was claimed by settlers during the Land Run of 1895.
The voters chose the name Lincoln County for County A in honor of President Abraham Lincoln, selecting it over the names Sac and Fox and
Springer.
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Named for Pres. Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln County is located in the east- central part of Oklahoma, bordered on the
north by Payne County and on the south by Pottawatomie County. Creek and Okfuskee counties are to the east and Logan and
Oklahoma counties border on the west. Interstate 44, the Turner Turnpike, crosses diagonally, east to west, through the
county. The Deep Fork of the Canadian River drains the county, which has 965.62 square miles of total land and water
area. The Cross Timbers and the agricultural lands of the Sandstone Hills in the east and the Red Bed Plains in the west
dominate the county's topography and vegetation. At the turn of the twenty-first century incorporated towns included
Agra, Carney, Davenport, Fallis, Kendrick, Meeker, Prague, Sparks, Stroud, Tryon, Warwick, Wellston, and Chander, the
county seat. Lincoln County is located in a region that has been little studied by archaeologists. However, a 1983
published archaeological survey reported that the county has sixty-six known sites, of which only three had been
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Geography: Land and Water
As reported by the Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 966 square miles (2,500 km2), of which 952 square miles
(2,470 km2) is land and 13 square miles (34 km2) (1.4%) is water.
The county is drained by the Deep Fork of the Canadian River. The eastern part of the county lies in the Cross Timbers and the Sandstone
Hills, while the western part is in the Red Bed Plains
Neighboring Counties
Bordering counties are as follows:
- Payne County (north)
- Creek County (northeast)
- Okfuskee County (southeast)
- Pottawatomie County (south)
- Oklahoma County (southwest)
- Logan County (northwest)
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