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- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia
Roger Mills County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of 2010, the population was 3,647. Its county seat is Cheyenne.
History
- the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia
Roger Mills County takes its name from Roger Q. Mills, a prominent American politician from Texas. The town of Cheyenne in Roger Mills County is the location of the Battle of Washita River (also called Battle of the Washita; Washita Battlefield and the Washita Massacre), where George Armstrong Custer’s 7th U.S. Cavalry attacked Chief Black Kettle’s Cheyenne village on the Washita River on November 26, 1868.
During the 1970s Roger Mills County and the surrounding area would benefit from the natural gas and oil development in the Panhandle-Hugoton field, the largest-volume gas field in the United States, and the world’s largest known source of helium. Between 1973 and 1993 the field produced over 8-trillion cubic feet (230,000,000 m³) of gas.
Timeline
| Date | Event | Source
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| 1892 | County formed | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1892 | Land records recorded | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1893 | Marriage records recorded | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1894 | Court records recorded | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1900 | First census | Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
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| 1907 | No significant boundary changes after this year | Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
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| 1907 | Probate records recorded | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1908 | Birth records recorded | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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Population History
- source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
| Census Year | Population
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| 1900 | 6,190
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| 1907 | 13,239
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| 1910 | 12,861
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| 1920 | 10,638
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| 1930 | 14,164
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| 1940 | 10,736
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| 1950 | 7,395
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| 1960 | 5,090
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| 1970 | 4,452
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| 1980 | 4,799
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| 1990 | 4,147
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Research Tips
External links
www.rootsweb.com/~okrogerm/
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