
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma.
Okfuskee County was created at statehood from the former Creek Nation, and Okemah was designated as the county seat. Oil and gas production began in the county in 1914, when the Prairie Oil and Gas Company completed a well near Paden. Other wells followed elsewhere in the county, creating a population boom that peaked in 1930.
Okemah was the birthplace of Folk Legend Woody Guthrie.
Adjacent Counties
- Creek County
- Okmulgee County
- Lincoln County
- Pottawatomie County
- Hughes County
- McIntosh County
- Seminole County
Communities
- Bearden
- Boley
- Castle
- Clearview
- IXL
- Last Chance
- Mason
- Okemah (County Seat)
- Paden
- Pharaoh
- Weleetka
- Welty
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