Major

Formed November 16, 1907 (51^st county)

Major County (7,781), Fairview (2,751)

The masonry Classical Revival courthouse was built in 1928.  It is located on a square at Ninth and Broadway, four blocks east of United States Highway 60.  Tonini and Bramblat were the building’s designers.  No other courthouse served the county since its formation on November 16, 1907 from parts of Woods County therefore Fairview has been the only county seat.  It was the 51^st county.  The county was named for John C. Major, a member of the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention.  Fairview is a geographic description of its location east of the Glass Mountains. 

Major County government consists of a treasurer, a sheriff, an assessor, and a clerk (executive).  It has 3 Commissioners (legislative.)  Fourteen District Court Judges serve Major, Alfalfa, Blaine, Dewey, Garfield, Grant, Kingfisher, Woods and Woodward counties and a court clerk serves Major County (judicial.)  The county is in northwest Oklahoma, northwest of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and west of Enid, Oklahoma.  The county center is 8.1 miles Northwest of Fairview nearer Orienta.  The county is surrounded clockwise by Alfalfa, Garfield, Kingfisher, Blaine, Dewey, Woodward, and Woods counties. 

The area of the county is 957 square miles.  It is 25 out of 77 in the state.  It ranks 63 out of 77 in population in the state.  It has a density of 8.1 persons per square mile making it 64 out of 77 in the state.  Major County has 49.2% of its population in its incorporated areas.  United States Highway 60 crisscrosses from east to west from Garfield County to Dewey County.  United States Highway 270 cuts the southwest tip of the county from Dewey County into Woodward County.  United States Highway 281 enters from Woods County on the north and exits into Dewey County on the south.  United States Highway 412 comes in from Garfield County jointly with United States Highway 60, splits, and proceeds westward into Woodward County.  The county is a wide rectangle with a scope taken out of the northern border.  Fairview is near the center of the county.  Fairview is the county seat and the largest city.  It is 35.4% of the county population.  Ranching and farming are the economies.