Pontotoc County Oklahoma History and Genealogy

PONTOTOC COUNTY OKLAHOMA

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Updated Thursday, 05-Aug-2004 22:26:52 CDT

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HISTORY OF PONTOTOC COUNTY OKLAHOMA

Created in 1907 from Chickasaw Lands. Name of one of the counties of the Chickasaw Nation which in turn, had been named for Pontotoc Creek in the old Chickasaw country in Mississippi.

Clerk of Courts has marriage, divorce,probate civil court records from 1907.

Pontotoc County
13th & Broadway
Ada, OK 74820
580-332-1425

Please also visit these great webpages. American Local History Network American History & Genealogy Project Oklahoma History and Genealogy USGenNet

MARRIAGE RECORDS OF PONTOTOC COUNTY OKLAHOMA

LAND RECORDS OF PONTOTOC COUNTY OKLAHOMA

PONTOTOC COUNTY OKLAHOMA HISTORY Pontotoc County. The name "Pontotoc" has an important place in the history of the Chickasaws. It was originally that of a creek in Northern Mississippi, near which the Chickasaw council-house was located. The well known Treaty of Pontotoc, providing for the sale of all the Chickasaw lands in the East, was negotiated at that point. The name itself is from the Chickasaw words panti meaning "cattail flag" and oktak meaning "prairie." It is suggested that the name may have referred to some well known place along its course where the creek flowed through a marshy prairie in which the cattail flag grew. When provisions were made during the Constitutional Convention for the organization of counties in Oklahoma, in 1907, a portion of the former Pontotoc County, Chickasaw Nation, was designated as Pontotoc County, thus perpetuating the name in the state.

PONTOTOC COUNTY OKLAHOMA TOWNS & TOWNSHIPS(Working on Table)

Pontotoc County Towns & Townships
These are the towns & townships, historical, etc
Historical †=A Post Office was there at one time PO from=Date Post Office was established PO to=Date a Post Office was closed, or name changed NLIE * =No longer in existance AKA=What the name was changed to or changed from
Name	Historical	PO From	PO To	NLIE	AKA	Type
NAME	†	DATE	DATE	*
NAME						Township

PONTOTOC OKLAHOMA CENSUS RECORDS


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