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Haskell County District Court
202 E. Main St.
Stigler, OK 74462-2439
Telephone: (918) 967-3323

County Clerk: Gail Brown
Court Clerk: Denise Sloan

Biographies

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Family Group Sheets/Family Histories

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Pioneer Papers

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Some County Deaths

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Census
  

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Obituaries

   
Funeral Homes


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Photos & Maps
    Photo Album
    Maps

   Map of Haskell County

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Stigler Chamber of Commerce
Stigler Public Library
Stigler News

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County Physical, Cultural & Historic Features

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County ZIP Codes
Area Code

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County Land - Property, Farms & Ranches

Additional links

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Records

Marriage Records - Choctaw Nation

Marriage Records

Military Records

McCurtain Genealogy Society

Haskell County History
Haskell County, originally named Sans Bois County prior to statehood is located in southeastern Oklahoma.  Haskell County was created in 1907 at statehood.  In that same year Stigler defeated Keota and Whitefield in a competition for the county seat.  The county name honors Charles N. Haskell, Oklahoma's first governor and a member of the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention. In 1907 Haskell County's population stood at approximately 17, 000.  At the beginning of the twenty-first century, there were six incorporated towns in Haskell County:  Stigler, McCurtain, Tamaha, Keota, Whitefield and Kinta.

The major areas, including the incorporated towns which made up Haskell County, were definitely contained in Sans Bois County, Brooken, Lequire, Hoyt, Kanima, Enterprise, Cartersville, Star and other small rural communities. Prior to statehood, as far as " county seat "can be applied to the Choctaw form of government.  The Sans Bois county courthouse represented the only county seat (prior to statehood ) . During the transition of statehood and terms of the Constitutional Convention, Sans Bois County became Haskell County.

The Sans Bois Mountains, is situated in the southern portion of the county and two lakes,  the Robert S. Kerr Reservoir from the east and Lake Eufaula in the west, protrude into the county in the north. The Robert S. Kerr Reservoir,  has greatly benefitted the county, especially the town of Keota, making it a shipping point and attracting industry.

There is significance evidence that there existed presence of Caddoan-speaking Mound Builders ( approximately A.D. 850 - 1450 in the areas of the two rivers.  This has been documented by archaeological evidence.  The Choctaw, Witchita, Chicksaw, Osage and Quapaw hunted in this area of eastern Oklahoma before European contact.  In 1831 The Choctaws began arriving from there forced removal to the newly created Choctaw Nation, which included  Haskell County,  A few came by steamboat and landed at Tamaha.

As statehood approached the Choctaw government dealt with allotment, losing  the rights to its Segregated Coal Lands and lastly its right to self-government, Chief Greenwood McCurtain held the office of principle chief.  Chief McCurtain, the last of the three McCurtain brothers, the last to hold this important position, lived and made his headquarters at Sans Bois, in southern Haskell County. When Chief McCurtain's term expired in 1904, he was appointed as lifetime chief by President Theodore Roosevelt and served after statehood in 1907 until his death on December 27, 1910.

Some links to Communities, Towns, & Cities 

Beaver Mountain
Enterprise
Hughart
-See Beaver Mountain
Keota
Lequire
Panther
Star

Stigler (County Seat)
Cartersville
Garland
Iron Bridge
Kinta
Lewisville
Red Hill
Tamaha
Cass
Hoyt
Kanima
Lafayette
McCurtain
Sans Bois

Whitefield

Adjacent Counties

Muskogee County (north)

McIntosh County (northwest)

Pittsburg County (west)

Sequoyah County (northeast

Le Flore County (east)

Latimer County (south)

(lots of good County links)
Choctaw Nation 
Choctaw Nation
Haskell County Assessor

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Schools
Land Openings
Choctaw Nation     
County Historical Society
County Surnames   
Newspapers

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This page updated on 01/02/17
 

 

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