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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. Official Website History Sequoyah County was created in 1907 when Oklahoma became a state. It was named after Sequoyah, who created the Cherokee syllabary and its written language. French traders came to this area in the 1700s, as they had posts in neighboring present-day Arkansas, part of their La Loui...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Atoka County, Oklahoma. History The area forming Atoka County was part of the Choctaw Nation after the tribe was forced to relocate to Indian Territory from its home in the Southeastern United States in the early 1830s. Unlike the State of Oklahoma , whose county boundaries follow the precise north-south, east-west grid provided b...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Canadian County, Oklahoma. Official Website The county was founded in 1889 and is named for the Canadian River, which forms part of its southern border. The river may have been named for early European explorers who were fur traders and trappers from New France, or pre-1763 colonial Canada. In 1859, the United States expelled the C...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Mayes County, Oklahoma. History French voyageurs roamed the area in the early 18th Century, giving French names to many of the waterways and other local sites. Jean Pierre Chouteau established a trading post at the location of the present town of Salina, where he chiefly traded with the Osage tribe that had settled in the vicinity. Un...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Seminole County, Oklahoma. Seminole County has been an important part of the Oklahoma and United States petroleum industry for over 80 years. The Greater Seminole Field was one of the most important oil fields ever found and is still producing. Discovered one field after another in 1926, it contained an estimated 822,000,000 barrels ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Noble County, Oklahoma.= Official Website =The present county was part of the Cherokee Outlet in Indian Territory until Oklahoma Territory was created in 1890, and the land was designated as County P. After the U. S. government opened the area to non-Indian settlement in 1893. It was renamed Noble County for John Willock Noble, then t...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Osage County, Oklahoma. Official Website Created in 1907 when Oklahoma was admitted as a state, the county is named for and is home to the federally recognized Osage Nation. The county is coextensive with the Osage Nation Reservation, established by treaty in the 19th century when the Osage relocated there from Kansas. Adjacent Co...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Ottawa County, Oklahoma. Official Website Ottawa County was created 16 July 1907 from Indian Territory. It was named for the Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma. It is also the location of the federally recognized Modoc Tribe of Oklahoma and the Quapaw Tribe of Indians, which is based in Quapaw. Adjacent Counties Cherokee County, Kan. ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma. Pottawatomie County was carved out of land originally given to the Creek and Seminole after their forced removal from Georgia and Florida. After the Civil War, the Creek and Seminole were forced to cede their lands back to the federal government, and the area of Pottawatomie County was used to resettle ...
Tinker Air Force Base (IATA: TIK, ICAO: KTIK, FAA LID: TIK) is a major United States Air Force base, with tenant U.S. Navy and other Department of Defense missions, located in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, surrounded by Del City, Oklahoma City, and Midwest City. The base, originally known as the Midwest Air Depot, is named in honor of Oklahoma native Major General Clarence L. Tinker, the first Na...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Washington County, Oklahoma. The Osage ceded their land claims in 1825, and the Federal Government allowed the Western Cherokee to settle in this area in 1828. The 1835 Treaty of New Echota confirmed Cherokee ownership of the land. The area now covered by Washington County was part of the Cherokee Saline District between 1840 and 185...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Ellis County, Oklahoma. History This area was used by indigenous tribes that included the Comanche, Kiowa, Apache, Cheyenne, and Arapaho. In 1820, an expedition led by Stephen Long passed through the area while exploring the Canadian River all the way to Fort Smith, Arkansas. Conflicts broke out between the Native Americans and th...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Pushmataha County, Oklahoma. History Located in southeastern Oklahoma, Pushmataha County is bounded by Le Flore County on the northeast, McCurtain County on the east, Choctaw County on the south, Atoka County on the west, Pittsburg County on the northwest, and Latimer County on the north. In 2010 the incorporated towns included Al...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Tillman County, Oklahoma. The county was founded at the time of Oklahoma statehood in 1907 and was named for Senator Benjamin Tillman of South Carolina. It had previously been part of Comanche County, Oklahoma Territory. Adjacent Counties Kiowa County Comanche County Cotton County Wichita County, Texas Jackson County ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Murray County, Oklahoma. History The area now occupied by Murray County was part of the land granted to the Choctaw Nation by the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek in 1820. The Chickasaw received part of the land under the Treaty of Doaksville in 1838. The area became part of the Chickasaw Nation in 1855. There was an extended conflict b...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Nowata County, Oklahoma.In the 17th century, white trappers first visiting the area found it occupied mostly by the Osage and Quapaw tribes. It was recognized as Osage territory by the time United States secured it as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. In 1819, the Arkansas Territory was organized, then was split in 1824 and 1828...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma.= Official Website =Formerly part of the Creek Nation, the county was created at statehood in 1907. The name Okmulgee is derived from the Hitichita (Lower Creek) word okimulgi, meaning "boiling waters". Adjacent Counties * Muskogee County * Wagoner County * McIntosh County * Okfuskee County * Creek County * T...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Pawnee County, Oklahoma. In 1891, the Pawnee agreed to take land allotments from the reservation, and the remaining land was opened to non-Indian settlers in 1893 during the Cherokee Outlet opening. Pawnee County was organized as County Q, and the future town of Pawnee, Townsite Number 13, was designated the county seat. In 1894, the...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wagoner, Oklahoma. According to archaeological studies, this area was inhabited by Caddoan Mound Builders during 300 to 1200 AD. The western area of Wagoner County was settled by the Creek after their forced removal in Alabama in the 1820s. The eastern portion of the county was settled by the Cherokee. During the Civil War in 1865,...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Woodward County, Oklahoma. Official Website In the 19th century, the county was part of a well-used military transportation corridor that was important to frontier defense. In 1868, Camp Supply, was established as a depot leading up to a campaign against the Cheyenne. From 1876 through the 1880s massive herds of cattle passed throug...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Marshall County, Oklahoma.The county was created at statehood in 1907 from part of the Chickasaw Nation. It was named to honor the maiden name of the mother of George Henshaw, a member of the 1906 Oklahoma Constitutional Convention. Adjacent Counties * Johnston County * Bryan County * Grayson County, Texas * Love County * Carter Count...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Carter County, Oklahoma. Official Website History Prior to statehood, the present Carter County, Oklahoma, was part of Pickens County in the Chickasaw Nation of Indian Territory. The county is named for Captain Ben W. Carter, a Cherokee who lived among the Chickasaw. After the Civil War, the government of the United States forced ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Beaver County, Oklahoma. The land where Beaver County is located has been under several jurisdictions. At one time, it was part of Mexico and then Mexican Texas before Texas became a state of the United States. Then in the Compromise of 1850, Texas ceded the land that would eventually become the Oklahoma panhandle to the United State...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Coal County, Oklahoma. Official Website Coal County was formed at statehood from the former Shappaway County (later renamed Atoka County) of the Pushmataha District of the Choctaw Nation in Indian Territory. A 3.5 mile strip of Coal County was taken from the Pontotoc District of the Chickasaw Nation. Initially, the Oklahoma legislat...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Caddo County, Oklahoma. History Caddo County was organized on August 6, 1901 when the Federal Government allotted the Kiowa, Comanche, and Arapaho reservations and sold the surplus land to white settlers. The county is named for the Caddo tribe who were settled here on a reservation in the 1870s. The reservation land was part of O...