Living in Harmony with a Healthy Land

The Okmulgee County Conservation District is the only local unit of government responsible for the conservation, restoration and development of Oklahoma's renewable natural resources. Assistance from the District is available to individual landowners, groups, cities, and towns concerned about preventing soil erosion and water pollution, upgrading wildlife and recreational areas, and preserving nature's beauty.

  Natural Resources of Okmulgee County

•  Okmulgee County is mostly prairie and lies almost entirely within the Cherokee Prairies land resource area. Overall, it slopes very gently to the south and east. The prairies originally had a cover of tall grass, but other areas were predominantly forested. The forest consisted of blackjack oak, post oak, and hickory on the sandier ridges; oaks on the sandy terraces along the Deep Fork Canadian River (also called the Deep Fork River ); and various deciduous trees on the bottoms along other streams. The elevation ranges from about 1,000 feet in the northwestern corner to about 590 feet on the southeastern edge.

•  Most of the county is drained by the Deep Fork Canadian River, which flows from the central western edge southeast to the eastern edge and eventually into the North Canadian River at a point several miles east of the county line. Creeks that flow to the north and east drain the northeastern third. Two small areas in the southeastern and southwestern corners are drained by the North Canadian River , which flows across the county at the far southeastern corner. All these streams are tributaries of the Arkansas River .

•  Okmulgee County is divided agriculturally in to two regions: the northeast and eastern area has more cropland whereas the western and southern area of the county is now predominately former farmland converted to livestock and hay production.

The Okmulgee County Conservation District office is in Suite B at the USDA Service center which is located at 719 East Eighth Street in Okmulgee . The Okmulgee County Conservation District owns the building and leaspace to the Natural Resources Conservation Service and the Farm Service Agency, federal agencies in the U. S. Department of Agriculture. The NRCS provides technical assistance to the conservation district and district cooperators, and administers several USDA technical and cost share programs.

On January 6, 1940 in the District Court Room in Okmulgee a crowd gathered to consider two petitions. The first to create the Okmulgee County Conservation District

The main goal of the district is to provide services to land users in protecting and conserving natural resources and to provide a link to state and federal conservation agencies and programs.

Okmulgee County covers 448,000 acres and the district has cooperator agreements with 1,743 producers in the county.

A board of five conservation district directors (three elected and two appointed) governs the conservation district.

Mission Statement:

"To conserve protect and restore the natural resources in Okmulgee County by informing and educating the public of the importance and the wise use of these most prized resources."