Lincoln County, Oklahoma
| Lincoln County, Oklahoma | |
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 Location in the U.S. state of Oklahoma |
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 Oklahoma's location in the U.S. |
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| Founded | 1891 |
| Named for | Abraham Lincoln |
| Seat | Chandler |
| Largest city | Chandler |
| Area | |
| • Total | 966 sq mi (2,502 km2) |
| • Land | 952 sq mi (2,466 km2) |
| • Water | 13 sq mi (34 km2), 1.4% |
| Population (est.) | |
| • (2013) | 34,351 |
| • Density | 35/sq mi (14/km²) |
| Congressional district | 3rd |
| Time zone | Central: UTC-6/-5 |
Lincoln County is a county located in eastern Central Oklahoma. As of the 2010 census, the population was 34,273. Its county seat is Chandler.
Lincoln County is part of the Oklahoma City, OK Metropolitan Statistical Area.
In 2010, the center of population of Oklahoma was located in Lincoln County, near the town of Sparks.
The United States purchased the large tract of land known as the Louisiana Purchase from France in 1803. Washington Irving, Charles J. Latrobe, and Count Albert de Pourtalès accompanied Henry L. Ellsworth and others on an expedition in Indian Territory that may have passed through the far northwestern corner of the future Lincoln County.
The Osage hunted on land that includes present-day Lincoln County until they ceded the area in an 1825 treaty to the federal government. The government then assigned the land to the Creek and the Seminoles after they were removed from the southeastern United States. After the Civil War in 1866, these tribes were forced to give up lands that included present-day Lincoln County in Reconstruction Treaties for siding with the Confederacy.
The federal government then used the area to resettle the Sac and Fox, Potawatomi, Kickapoo and Ioway tribes. Established in 1870, the Sac and Fox agency, established on the eastern edge of the present-day county, was the first settlement in the area.
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