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The Atoka County Courthouse in Atoka. Atoka County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census, the population was 14,143. [1] Its county seat is Atoka. [2] The county was formed before statehood from Choctaw Lands, and its name honors a Choctaw Chief named Atoka. The county is part of Choctaw Nation reservation lands.
Website. atokaok.org. Atoka is a city in and the county seat of Atoka County, Oklahoma, United States. [4] The population was 3,195 as of the 2020 Census, [5] a 2.4% increase over the 3,107 reported at the 2010 census, [6] which was itself an increase of 4.0 percent from the figure of 2,988 in 2000.
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The county was created in 1850 as Shappaway County, a name it held until 1854. Shappaway was a corruption of the Chickasaw or Choctaw words, shapah, or “flag,” and welih, “to hold up to view.”. In late 1854 the General Council of the Choctaw Nation renamed it Atoka County in honor of Captain William Atoka. His surname, “Atoka,” is ...
Stringtown, Oklahoma. Stringtown is a town in Atoka County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 419 as of the 2020 Census, [4] which was a 2.2% increase over the population of 410 reported at the 2010 census, [5] which itself was an increase of 3.5% from the figure of 396 recorded in 2000. It is the second largest town in Atoka County.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties on the National Register of Historic Places in Atoka County, Oklahoma, United States. The locations of National Register properties for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. [1] There are 17 properties listed on the National Register in the ...
72001050 [1][2] Added to NRHP. April 19, 1972. Boggy Depot is a ghost town and Oklahoma State Park that was formerly a significant city in the Indian Territory. It grew as a vibrant and thriving town in present-day Atoka County, Oklahoma, United States, and became a major trading center on the Texas Road and the Butterfield Overland Mail route ...
Wardville is a small unincorporated community in northern Atoka County, Oklahoma, United States, along State Highway 131, [3] 14 miles northeast of Coalgate. The post office was established February 6, 1902 under the name Herbert, Indian Territory. Herbert was located in Atoka County, Choctaw Nation, a territorial-era entity which included ...