Exploring Oklahoma History

Hughes County

Hughes County was named for W. C. Hughes, an Oklahoma City lawyer who was a member of the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention.

Established: 1907 ^[1]
County Seat: Holdenville, Oklahoma 74848
Area: 807 mi² (2,090 km²)
Population: 13,367 ^[2]
Region: Choctaw Country
Weather: NWS Tulsa
Info: Wikipedia
History: Oklahoma Historical Society

Hughes County

Fort Holmes

In immediate vicinity. Est. 1834, by Lieut. T. H. Holmes, later Lt. Gen., C.S.A. This post was visited ~ June, 1834 ~ by Gen. Henry Leavenworth on ...

Hughes County

Shawnee Town

The town was a settlement of Absentee Shawnee and Delaware on the California Road. The tribes had migrated from Ohio before 1800 and were allowed b...

Hughes County

Whipple Survey

Under instructions of Jefferson Davis, U.S. Secretary of War, Lieutenant A.W. Whipple (later Major General, U.S. Army) made the first railroad surv...

County information from Wikipedia.
Population from U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.