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- Category: Blaine County, OK
- Published on Sunday, 13 November 2011 22:10
- Written by Katy Hestand
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Welcome to Blaine County Oklahoma
Hi Come on In. I am the Local Coordinator for Blaine County, my name is Katy Hestand and you can reach me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . I really hope you find what you are looking for here, but if you don't, please drop me a note and I will try to get an answer for you. Or, you can post a query.
In 1890, this county was designated simply as "C" County. By treaty with the Cheyenne and Arapahoe tribes, on 19 April 1892, the county was officially opened to settlers by land rush.
Also on that date, the county name became Blaine in honor of James Gillespie Blaine, Senator, Speaker of the House, and Republican candidate for President in 1884.
The County seat is Watonga, named for Wa-ton-gha, Arapaho Chief.
The word means black coyote.
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As things are completed on the menu, they will be removed from this side menu. This is a work in progress, since the site was hit back in May by hackers who don't seem to want to leave me alone.
The Blaine Co Gen Soc was formed June 2008. We meet at 7:00 p.m. the third Tuesday of the month at the Watonga Library, 301 N. Prouty, Watonga, OK Our email address is This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. In my journey revamping the site I have found a lot of very good and useful information that I would like to pass along and since I already wanted to have the new site up and running, you'll be seeing quite a few changes in the near future. If you have anything that you would like to add, please send it to Katy HestandI am presently accepting photo's for the new album. You are free to submit any photo that you would like that pertains to Okahoma and it's people, so long as it isn't offensive or that of a living person. Please be sure the photo isn't under copyright. Use the form to the left or click here. Some of the links aren't connected yet, because I am still doing research on them and they aren't ready yet. If you have information that you would like to contribute for those links, please feel free to send it to me.
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