Pittsburg Counties Oklahoma United States

Pittsburg County was created at statehood from Tobucksy County in the Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory. The new county took its name from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Perryville, which no longer exists, was the place in Tobucksy County that court was held and elections were designated to take place. It was located a few miles south of present-day McAlester and was also an important military post and depot for Confederate forces. In September of 1863, Perryville was burned to the ground by Union troops. Land Area: 1,377 square miles of hills and valleys in the north and mountains in the south

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• First Realty, Inc. - Offering services from buying and selling to building or financing, with offices in McAlester and Longtown. Residential and commercial.
  
• The Political Graveyard: Pittsburg County, Oklahoma - Database provides political history, cemetery locations, and brief biographies of politicians who were born, lived or died in the county.
  
• Pittsburg County Extension - Part of the Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service and the Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources at Oklahoma State University, to provide research-based information and education to help Oklahomans make their lives better.
  
• Pittsburg County Demographics - Provides report from the U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census 2000. [PDF]
  
  

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