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Mayes County
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county in Oklahoma, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Oklahoma
- Founded
- November 16, 1907
- Named after
- Samuel Houston Mayes
- Seat
- Pryor Creek
- Largest city
- Pryor Creek
- Total
- 684 sq mi (1,770 km )
- Land
- 655 sq mi (1,700 km )
- Water
- 28 sq mi (73 km ) 4.1%
- Estimate 2025
- 40,416
- Density
- 59.6/sq mi (23.0/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 2nd
- Website
- mayes .okcounties .org
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Encyclopedic overview
Mayes County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census, the population was 39,046. Its county seat is Pryor Creek. Named for Samuel Houston Mayes, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation from 1895 to 1899, it was originally created at the Sequoyah Convention in August 1905.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mayes County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.