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40-1914: Indian Journal may refer to: Indian Journal , a newspaper published in Eufaula, Oklahoma Indian Journal of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Indian Journal of Anaesthesia The Indian Journal of Animal Sciences Indian Journal of Cancer Indian Journal of Community Medicine Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine Indian Journal of Dental Research Indian Journal of Dermatology Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology Indian Journal of Gastroenterology Indian Journal of Gender Studies Indian Journal of Geo-Marine Sciences Indian Journal of Human Genetics Indian Journal of International Law Indian Journal of Law and Technology Indian Journal of Medical and Paediatric Oncology Indian Journal of Medical Ethics Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology Indian Journal of Medical Research Indian Journal of Medical Sciences Indian Journal of Nephrology Indian Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine Indian Journal of Ophthalmology Indian Journal of Palliative Care Indian Journal of Pathology & Microbiology Indian Journal of Pharmaceutical Education and Research Indian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences Indian Journal of Pharmacology Indian Journal of Physics Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery Indian Journal of Psychiatry Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging Indian Journal of Rheumatology Indian Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS Indian Journal of Theology Indian Journal of Urology Topics referred to by

80-526: A Superior Court and Sheriff (as an officer of the court ), both located in a designated "shire town". Bennington County, Vermont has two shire towns; the court for "North Shire" is in the shire town Manchester , and the Sheriff for the county and court for "South Shire" are in the shire town Bennington. In 2024, Connecticut , which had not defined their counties for anything but statistical, historical and weather warning purposes since 1960, along with ending

120-410: A county seat may be an independent city surrounded by, but not part of, the county of which it is the administrative center; for example, Fairfax City is both the county seat of Fairfax County, Virginia and completely surrounded by Fairfax County, but the city is politically independent of the county. When the county seat is in the independent city, government offices such as the courthouse may be in

160-470: A female householder with no husband present, and 42.3% were non-families. 38.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 25.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.16 and the average family size was 2.85. In the city, the population was spread out, with 20.8% under the age of 18, 6.7% from 18 to 24, 20.0% from 25 to 44, 23.2% from 45 to 64, and 29.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age

200-606: A playground and pavilions, and the Eufaula Community Center, which has multiple meeting rooms and a pool. The City of Eufaula hosts an annual 4 July fireworks show on Lake Eufaula. The first issue of the Indian Journal , now The Eufaula Indian Journal , was published in 1876; it is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Oklahoma. Noted people who worked for the Indian Journal include Alexander Posey , who

240-725: Is also on the National Register of Historic Places listings in McIntosh County, Oklahoma. The three-story, red brick building with the second floor entryway is said to be significant because it is a good example of the functional architectural design used for numerous public buildings in the state. Other NRHP sites in Eufaula include the C.L. Cooper Building, the Eufaula Armory, and the First Soil Conservation District Dedication Site. According to

280-492: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Eufaula, Oklahoma#Media Eufaula is a city in and the county seat of McIntosh County , Oklahoma , United States. The population was 2,813 at the 2010 census, an increase of 6.6 percent from 2,639 in 2000. Eufaula is in the southern part of the county, 30 miles (48 km) north of McAlester and 32 miles (51 km) south of Muskogee . The name "Eufaula" comes from

320-409: Is known as the seat of its county. Generally, the county legislature, county courthouse, sheriff's department headquarters, hall of records, jail and correctional facility are located in the county seat, though some functions (such as highway maintenance, which usually requires a large garage for vehicles, along with asphalt and salt storage facilities) may also be located or conducted in other parts of

360-704: The Eufaula tribe , part of the Musogee Creek confederacy . The town and county are within the jurisdiction of the federally recognized Muscogee Nation , descendants of the tribe who were removed here from the Southeastern United States in the 1830s. In the Southeast, the Musogee people (then known as Creek by European Americans) occupied a large territory including much of present-day Georgia and Alabama. By 1800,

400-565: The United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 9.6 square miles (25 km ), of which 6.6 square miles (17 km ) is land and 3.0 square miles (7.8 km ) (31.15%) is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 2,639 people, 1,150 households, and 663 families residing in the city. The population density was 397.8 inhabitants per square mile (153.6/km ). There were 1,468 housing units at an average density of 221.3 per square mile (85.4/km ). The racial makeup of

440-422: The poverty line , including 45.4% of those under age 18 and 17.8% of those age 65 or over. Lake Eufaula , created by Eufaula Dam and Oklahoma's largest lake contained entirely within the state of Oklahoma, is right next to town. Standing Rock , an historical monument, became submerged after the area behind the dam was flooded. Eufaula Parks & Recreation facilities include Old Creek Town Park, which has

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480-467: The Creek had a village named Eufala, located on Eufaula Creek, near what later developed as the present site of Talladega, Alabama . This was one of a group called their Upper Creek towns. Pickett's History of Alabama mentions an Indian town, belonging to the Creek, which he calls Eufaulahatche. Little Eufauly is mentioned by an historian of this period as early as 1792. Another Upper Creek town called Eufaula

520-475: The Creek to move to Indian Territory and cede their lands in the Southeastern United States, as part of a series of cessions they had made. They established Eufaula as a center of Creek in their new territory. It was a frequent meeting place of the people, who held pow-wows or Indian conferences in that vicinity during the early days of Creek settlement. In the 1870s G. W. Grayson, then Chief of

560-584: The Creek, his brother Samuel, George Stidham and other Creek leaders, persuaded the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railway (known as the KATY) to locate one of its stations at this site. The older Creek village was moved here to take advantage of the railroad. Eufaula, Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma), began to attract European Americans soon after the KATY railroad established a station here in 1872. The town

600-739: The Jefferson Highway between Winnipeg, Canada and New Orleans. It opened for use April 21, 1920. The bridge is now long gone, and the site of the bridge has changed with the building of Lake Eufaula . The historic Eufaula Business District is on the National Register of Historic Places listings in McIntosh County, Oklahoma . The District is officially described as the: "Area within Lots 89, 90, 100, 101, 102 on Main Street between Pine and Grand Streets." The McIntosh County Courthouse at 110 N. First St.

640-935: The United States, followed by Towson , the county seat of Baltimore County, Maryland . Likewise, some county seats may not be incorporated in their own right, but are located within incorporated municipalities. For example, Cape May Court House, New Jersey , though unincorporated, is a section of Middle Township , an incorporated municipality. In some states, often those that were among the original Thirteen Colonies , county seats include or formerly included "Court House" as part of their name, such as Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia . Most counties have only one county seat. However, some counties in Alabama , Arkansas , Georgia , Iowa , Kentucky , Massachusetts , Mississippi , Missouri , New Hampshire , New York , and Vermont have two or more county seats, usually located on opposite sides of

680-416: The city was 66.46% White , 17.92% Native American , 7.43% African American , 1.21% Hispanic or Latino of any race, 0.30% Asian , 0.04% Pacific Islander , 0.27% from other races . Respondents of two or more races represented 7.58% of the population. There were 1,150 households, out of which 21.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 41.1% were married couples living together, 13.3% had

720-517: The counties after his unification, there were about 1,000. Under the Eastern Han dynasty , the number of counties increased to above 1,000. About 1400 existed when the Sui dynasty abolished the commandery level (郡 jùn), which was the level just above counties, and demoted some commanderies to counties. In Imperial China, the county was a significant administrative unit because it marked the lowest level of

760-418: The county, especially if it is geographically large. A county seat is usually an incorporated municipality . The exceptions include the county seats of counties that have no incorporated municipalities within their borders, such as Arlington County, Virginia , where the county seat is the entire county. Ellicott City , the county seat of Howard County, Maryland , is the largest unincorporated county seat in

800-420: The county. Examples include Harrison County, Mississippi , which has both Biloxi and Gulfport as county seats, and Hinds County, Mississippi , which has both Raymond and the state capital of Jackson . The practice of multiple county seat towns dates from the days when travel was difficult. There have been few efforts to eliminate the two-seat arrangement, since a county seat is a source of civic pride for

840-423: The early 20th century, the city had paved streets, a splendid "White Way," five brick-and-stone schoolhouses, seven churches, a large cotton oil mill, light and ice plant, business blocks, three parks, a waterworks and sewage system, four banks, two hotels, the three-story brick boarding school for Creek Nation girls, and an abundance of natural gas for domestic and commercial purposes. A civic club worked to improve

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880-424: The imperial bureaucratic structure; in other words, it was the lowest level that the government reached. Government below the county level was often undertaken through informal non-bureaucratic means, varying between dynasties. The head of a county was the magistrate , who oversaw both the day-to-day operations of the county as well as civil and criminal cases. The current number of counties mostly resembled that of

920-572: The increase of Han Chinese population in Taiwan, the number of counties also grew by time. By the end of Qing era, there were 11 counties in Taiwan. Protestant missionaries in China first romanized the term as hien . When Taiwan became a Japanese colony in 1895, the hierarchy of divisions also incorporated into the Japanese system in the period when Taiwan was under Japanese rule. By September 1945, Taiwan

960-611: The independent city under an agreement, such as in Albemarle , or may in be enclaves of the county surrounded by the independent city, such as in Fairfax . Others, such as Prince William , have the courthouse in an enclave surrounded by the independent city and have the county government, the Board of Supervisors, in a different part of the county, far from the county seat. The following counties have their county seat in an independent city: Bedford

1000-732: The later years of the Qing dynasty . Changes of location and names of counties in Chinese history have been a major field of research in Chinese historical geography, especially from the 1960s to the 1980s. There are 1,355 counties in Mainland China out of a total of 2,851 county-level divisions. In Taiwan , the first counties were first established in 1661 by the Kingdom of Tungning . The later ruler Qing empire inherited this type of administrative divisions. With

1040-752: The provincial level, and thus county seats. In the provinces of Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia the term "shire town" is used in place of county seat. County seats in China are the administrative centers of the counties in the People's Republic of China . Xian have existed since the Warring States period and were set up nationwide by the Qin dynasty . The number of counties in China proper gradually increased from dynasty to dynasty. As Qin Shi Huang reorganized

1080-552: The records from the courthouse in Eufaula, but were beaten back and forced to surrender during a gunfight. One year later, Eufaula was designated as the permanent seat of McIntosh County. The European-American settlers of Eufaula built a school on the east side of the railroad, and established a free school by voluntary taxation. When the Curtis Act was passed by Congress, Eufaula levied taxes and started to build their public school system, and to make other needed public improvements. In

1120-425: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Indian Journal . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Indian_Journal&oldid=1221152391 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

1160-764: The state's area, has no borough government or borough seat. One borough, the Lake and Peninsula Borough , has its borough seat located in another borough, namely King Salmon in Bristol Bay Borough . In Louisiana , which is divided into parishes rather than counties, county seats are referred to as "parish seats". In New England , counties have served mainly as dividing lines for the states' judicial systems. Rhode Island has no county level of government and thus no county seats, and Massachusetts has dissolved many but not all of its county governments. In Vermont , Massachusetts , and Maine county government consists only of

1200-621: The town. When the Jefferson Highway was first constructed through Eufaula, travelers and trade vehicles could cross the South Canadian River, about four miles below the town, only by ferry. The citizens of Eufaula incorporated The Jefferson Highway Bridge Company, and constructed the Jefferson Highway Bridge, at a cost of almost a quarter of a million dollars. When built, the bridge was the most expensive constructed on

1240-416: The towns involved, along with providing employment opportunities. There are 33 counties with multiple county seats in 11 states: Alaska is divided into boroughs rather than counties; the county seat in these case is referred to as the "borough seat"; this includes six consolidated city-borough governments (one of which is styled as a "municipality"). The Unorganized Borough, Alaska , which covers 49% of

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1280-538: The use of county seats in particular, will fully transition with the permission of the United States Census Bureau to a system of councils of government for the purposes of boundary definition and as county equivalents. Two counties in South Dakota , Oglala Lakota and Todd , have their county seat and government services centered in a neighboring county. Their county-level services are provided by Fall River County and Tripp County , respectively. In Virginia ,

1320-408: Was 47 years. For every 100 females, there were 81.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 75.8 males. The median income for a household in the city was $ 20,547, and the median income for a family was $ 28,871. Males had a median income of $ 25,673 versus $ 19,405 for females. The per capita income for the city was $ 15,521. About 20.9% of families and 27.6% of the population were below

1360-499: Was admitted as a state, Eufaula was part of the newly organized McIntosh County. The residents of Eufaula were involved in a dispute with nearby Checotah , in what was known as the McIntosh County Seat War , during 1907 and 1909. The legislature had designated Checotah as the new county seat, but the people of Eufaula refused to hand over the county records. Soon after, a group of heavily armed men from Checotah tried to seize

1400-623: Was divided into 8 prefectures ( 州 and 廳 ), which remained after the Republic of China took over. There are 13 county seats in Taiwan, which function as county-administered cities , urban townships , or rural townships . In most of the United States , a county is an administrative or political subdivision of a state that consists of a geographic area with specific boundaries and usually some level of governmental authority. The city, town, or populated place that houses county government

1440-671: Was editor and also published his Fus Fixico Letters in the early 1900s, commenting on Creek Nation and Indian Territory politics. This was the only daily Indian newspaper at the time. Eufaula is served by U.S. Route 69 and Oklahoma State Highway 9 . Eufaula is in the 10-county region served by the KI BOIS Area Transit System ("KATS"), a low-cost public bus/van service established in 1983 to help poorer communities, primarily in southeast Oklahoma, by providing access to Senior Citizen centers, groceries, medical services, and jobs. The Eufaula Municipal Airport, Airport ID #Fo8,

1480-415: Was established in 1965 and is designated as a Federal Aviation Authority. The runway is asphalt, 3,000 feet long and 60 feet wide, with flight availability for small aircraft, helicopters, and ultra light aircraft. County seat In Canada , the provinces of Ontario , Quebec , New Brunswick , Prince Edward Island , and Nova Scotia have counties as an administrative division of government below

1520-522: Was located on the Tallapoosa River ; the present town of Dadeville, Alabama developed near there. The Lower Creek had two villages of similar names: Eufaula on the Chattahoochee River , in what later became Henry County, Alabama ; and Eufala, located on the east bank of the Chattahoochee River , within the limits of present Quitman County, Georgia . In 1832 the U. S. Government had forced

1560-589: Was named after George W. Ingall, US Indian agent for the Five Civilized Tribes, suggested the name Eufaula, after the earlier Muscogee tribal town in Alabama. Eufaula incorporated as a town in Indian Territory by 1898. D. B. Whitlow and Joseph Coody established the first store on the west side of the railroad. The Graysons and G. E. Seales started a store on the east side about the same time. Dr. W. H. Bailey

1600-552: Was the first physician and druggist to locate in the new town. Rev. R. C. McGee, a Presbyterian missionary , established one of the first churches in Eufaula. He served there as minister for many years. For years before the American Civil War , the Asbury Mission School, located two miles northeast of Eufaula, was the leading educational institution of that vicinity. It was burned in an accidental fire. After Oklahoma

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