Stephens County Oklahoma Genealogy Trails

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Located in south-central Oklahoma Stephens County is bordered by Comanche, Grady, and Garvin counties on the north, Garvin and Carter counties on the east, Jefferson County on the south, and Comanche and Cotton counties on the west. Named for Texas politician John H. Stephens, the county was organized at 1907 statehood from part of the Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory, and part of Comanche County, Oklahoma Territory. Comprised of 891.12 squares miles of land and water, Stephens County lies within the Red Bed Plains physiographic region. The county has no major river but is drained by numerous creeks. The Wildhorse Creek in eastern Stephens County drains into the Washita River, and Beaver Creek in the western part of the county flows into the Red River. At the turn of the twenty-first century incorporated towns included Bray, Central High, Comanche, Empire City, Loco, Marlow, Velma, and Duncan, the county seat. Stephens County, the state's Number 1 producer of oil, was established July 16, 1907 and named for John Hall Stephens, a representative from Texas. Stephens County came largely from the Chickasaw Nation of Indian Territory (the old Pickens County), with a small portion on the Western edge from part of Oklahoma Territory, as the dividing Territory line, the 98th Meridian, cut through the county. Oil was discovered in what is now Stephens County several years before Oklahoma became a state. Many little towns were established around the drilling sites, but when no oil was found they faded away. As early as 1903, shallow wells were drilled in the Cruce area, near Duncan Lake.

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Cities and Towns
Bray -- Central High -- Comanche -- Duncan -- Empire City
Loco -- Marlow -- Meridian -- Sunray -- Velma

Stephens County Online Data
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Website Updates: 03/06/2009 Obit: Gullett S. Wilson