Okmulgee

Formed November 16, 1907 (61^st county)

Okmulgee County (36,706), Okmulgee (11,304)

The stately red brick Neo-Classical and Georgian Revival courthouse is located at Seminole and Seventh.  Oklahoma State Highway 56 is one block north and United States Highway 75 is ten blocks east of the location.  It was built in 1917 from the designs of C. E. Hair and Tonini & Bramblet.   An 1878-built structure was originally used as the courthouse with the county founding on November 16, 1907.  Okmulgee has always been the county seat.  The county is originally part of the Creek Nation before becoming the 61^st county.  Okmulgee County and city are named for the Creek word meaning “boiling water.” 

Okmulgee County government consists of a treasurer, a sheriff, an assessor, and a clerk (executive).  It has 3 Commissioners (legislative.)  Eleven District Court Judges serve Okmulgee, Creek, and Okfuskee counties and a court clerk serves Okmulgee County (judicial.)  The county is situated south of Tulsa, Oklahoma and west of Muskogee, Oklahoma.  The Deep Fork of the Canadian River crosses the county from west to east.  The county center is in Okmulgee 1.2 miles South of the city center.  The county is surrounded clockwise by Tulsa, Wagoner, Muskogee, McIntosh, Okfuskee, and Creek counties. 

The area of the county is 697 square miles.  It is 52 out of 77 in the state.  It ranks 29 out of 77 in population in the state.  It has a density of 52.7 persons per square mile making it 23 out of 77 in the state.  Okmulgee County has 58.4% of its population in its incorporated areas.  Interstate Highway 40 crosses the southern part of the county from McIntosh County to Okfuskee County, east to west.  United States Highway 62 enters from Muskogee County (east), joins Interstate Highway 40, and exits into Okfuskee County.  United States Highway 75 comes in from Tulsa County on the north, joins United States Highway 62, and goes west into Okfuskee County.  United States Highway Alternate 75 enters from the north, Creek County, and terminates in the county by joining United States Highway 75.  United States Highway 266 comes from McIntosh County, east, and terminates at Interstate Highway 40.  The county is shaped like a totem pole with three extensions east and one extension west.  Okmulgee is near the county center.  Okmulgee is the county seat and the largest city.  It is 30.8% of the county population.  The county and county seat are pronounced OKE-MULL-GEE.  This county is in the Tulsa Metropolitan Statistical Area.

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