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Washington County, Oklahoma

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

11historic places

—earliest paper

1907formed

52,455pop. 2020

20cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 11 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1972; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Bartlesville, Dewey.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Oklahoma is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Washington titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

9 of 11 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

11 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Bartlesville Downtown Historic District	Bartlesville	District	1991
Comer, C.A., House	Dewey	Building	2015
Dewey Hotel	Dewey	Building	1975
First United Methodist Church	Bartlesville	Building	2020
House at 1554 SW Rogers	Bartlesville	Building	2009
La Quinta	Bartlesville	Building	1982
Nellie Johnstone No. 1	Bartlesville	Structure	1972
Old Washington County Courthouse	Bartlesville	Building	1981
Phillips, Frank and Jane, House	Bartlesville	Building	1975
Price Tower NHL	Bartlesville	Building	1974
Washington County Memorial Hospital	Bartlesville	Building	2014

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Washington was formed in 1907 (1907-11-16) from former Indian Territory.

WASHINGTON created from former Indian Territory.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Washington County population from 1900 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
12,813	27,002	30,559	32,880	42,347	48,113	48,996	52,455

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

20 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 20 of 20 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Beck Cemetery	36.76397	-95.94882
Buck Creek Cemetery	36.50097	-95.83097
Ceasar Cemetery	36.5631	-95.93785
Curleyhead Cemetery	36.72035	-95.83044
Delaware Cemetery	36.83233	-95.95738
Dewey Cemetery	36.82861	-95.93333
Dewey Cemetery Section 4	36.82816	-95.93105
Jessie Creek Cemetery	36.71411	-95.99869
Keyes Cemetery	36.62622	-95.89834
Lenno Cemetery	36.86808	-95.99526
Matoaka Cemetery	36.65889	-95.98806
Memorial Park Cemetery	36.72981	-95.92776
Miller Cemetery	36.65177	-95.89132
Ochelata Cemetery	36.59709	-95.99457
Oglesby Cemetery	36.645	-95.86255
Ramona Cemetery	36.52219	-95.92077
Silver Lake Cemetery	36.71002	-95.96467
Stokes Cemetery	36.81286	-95.99541
Tyner Cemetery	36.5777	-95.85018
White Rose Cemetery	36.74145	-95.9877

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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