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Office: Grant County Emergency Management – 112 E Guthrie St, Room 104, Medford, OK 73759 | (580) 395-3195 | Email: [email protected] | Hours: Mon–Fri 8 AM–4 PM
Services: County-wide storm spotting, tornado alerting, flood watch coordination; Director serves as county floodplain administrator.
Related: Grant County Sheriff’s Office – located east of the courthouse on First Street, Medford, OK; built in 1937, houses a 39-bed jail.
Roads & Utilities
ROADS & TRANSPORTATION
Roads: US-81 and SH-11 serve Medford, the county seat, in north-central Oklahoma near the Kansas border
Transit: Limited; primarily auto-dependent – confirm current regional options directly with the county.
Business & Permits
BUILDING & PERMITS
Office: Grant County Courthouse – 112 E. Guthrie, Room 301, Medford, OK 73759 | (580) 395-2134 | Hours: Mon–Fri 8 AM–4:30 PM
Notes: Contact the courthouse directly for current building permit requirements.
Veterans Services
VETERANS SERVICES
County VSO: Grant County Veterans Service Officer – Grant County Courthouse, Medford, OK
Libraries
LIBRARIES
System: Medford Public Library – Medford, OK | Hours: Mon–Sat 10 AM–6 PM
Services: Owned and operated by the City of Medford; children’s books, Oklahoma history collection, public WiFi, computers, printers, work desks, weekly children’s story time.
Parks & Recreation
PARKS & RECREATION
Key Assets: Grant County was genuinely part of the Cherokee Nation’s Cherokee Outlet until it was opened to non-Native settlers on September 16, 1893, following intense public demand for the land; settlers in the newly formed territory initially designated the area “County L,” and it was renamed by popular vote in a general election on November 6, 1894, in honor of former U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant; the county seat, Medford, developed as a genuine agricultural trade center for the surrounding wheat-growing region after the Gulf Railroad (later the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway) built a line through town in 1897, and by 1909 the small community supported three banks, three weekly newspapers, a flour mill, and several grain elevators; voters chose Medford as the county seat in a May 1908 election, and the current Grant County Courthouse – a three-story Classical Revival redbrick building – was dedicated on July 4, 1910, and remains listed on the National Register of Historic Places; the town’s early history includes real hardship, too: a fire destroyed five entire blocks of businesses and residences on June 25, 1911; today, Medford’s 1893 Land Run Historical Center preserves this pioneer-era heritage, and the town continues to serve as a modest agricultural hub for Grant County, a genuinely sparsely populated stretch of north-central Oklahoma along the Kansas border
Notes: Grant County is a small, rural county without major tourist attractions; content here reflects the county’s genuine Cherokee Outlet land-run origins and agricultural heritage rather than manufactured superlatives.
GIS & Maps
GIS & MAPS
GIS Portal: Grant County GIS – accessible via grant.okcounties.org
Parcel Search: Grant County Assessor – Medford, OK (office closed August 4–7, 2026 for mandatory training – confirm current hours before visiting)
Addressing/911: Coordinated through Grant County Emergency Management
Animal Services
ANIMAL SERVICES
Notes: No dedicated county-run animal shelter or animal control department was confirmed in available sources for Grant County. For strays or animal concerns, contact the Grant County Sheriff’s Office. The nearest confirmed regional shelters are in larger Oklahoma cities such as Enid – contact directly to confirm whether they accept intake from Grant County residents.
Environmental & Waste
ENVIRONMENTAL / WASTE MANAGEMENT
Environmental Complaints: Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) – deq.ok.gov
Notes: Contact your specific municipality directly for current refuse collection and recycling program details.
NOTES
Grant County was genuinely part of the Cherokee Outlet, opened to settlers in 1893, and its seat, Medford, preserves this pioneer history at the 1893 Land Run Historical Center. All contact information above was sourced from official county, city, library, and courthouse pages as of this writing; phone numbers and hours should be reconfirmed directly with the relevant office before a visit.
About Grant County County
Grant County is north-central Oklahoma’s Cherokee Strip Land Run and Great Salt Plains county – the 1893 land run that settled the Cherokee Outlet in a single day and the salt flats where visitors dig hourglass selenite crystals found almost nowhere else on earth define a county of dramatic settlement history and unusual geology where Medford serves the surrounding wheat farming communities near Kansas.
Medford (the county seat, population ~1,000) is Grant County’s governmental hub on US 81, a north-central Oklahoma community whose Cherokee Strip heritage, Great Salt Plains access, and wheat farming economy anchor its identity near Kansas.
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Grant County Assessor at 112 E. Guthrie Street, Medford, OK 73759, phone 580-395-2274. OK assessed at 11% of fair cash value for residential.
Courts & Legal
Grant County District Court at 112 E. Guthrie Street, Medford, OK 73759, phone 580-395-2655, handles probate.
Marriage & Vital Records
Marriage licenses, divorce records, and birth & death certificates are handled by the following office(s):
COUNTY CLERK
112 East Guthrie St, Medford, OK 73759
(580) 395-2274
COURT CLERK
112 East Guthrie St, Medford, OK 73759
(580) 395-2536
Genealogy
County-level record sources
Grant County District Court, Medford (probate/estate case files – see Probate section above).
Local societies
No dedicated Grant County genealogical society was confirmed in available directories.
Probate & Estate
Losing someone and having to deal with courts and paperwork at the same time is hard. This section won’t make that easier, but it should tell you what to expect, what it costs, and where to go – so at least you’re not walking in blind.
Where to go
Grant County District Court 112 East Guthrie Street, Room 104, Medford, OK 73759 (580) 395-2828 Grant County is in north-central Oklahoma along the Kansas border, seated in Medford.
Step 1: figure out which path applies
Oklahoma has NOT adopted the Uniform Probate Code, maintaining its own probate statutes under Title 58 of the Oklahoma Statutes. Probate cases are handled by the District Court in each of Oklahoma’s 77 counties.
Small Estate Affidavit (58 O.S. § 393) – available when the total value of probate personal property (not counting real estate) is $50,000 or less. At least 10 days must have passed since death. This process skips court entirely: the affidavit is signed, notarized, and presented directly to whoever holds the asset (a bank, for example), along with a certified death certificate. Real estate can never be transferred this way – even a small estate with real property still needs some form of court proceeding.
Summary Administration – available when the total probate estate does not exceed $200,000, or when the decedent has been dead more than 5 years, or lived outside Oklahoma. This is an abbreviated form of probate – still court-supervised, but faster and less expensive than full administration.
Regular (Full) Administration – the standard court-supervised process, required for larger or more complex estates, or wherever real property is involved and the shortcuts above don’t apply. A personal representative (executor or administrator) is formally appointed by the court.
Step 2: filing for administration
A Petition for Probate is filed in the District Court of the county where the decedent resided; if there’s a will, the original is filed with the petition.
The court sets a hearing date and requires notice be given to heirs and interested parties.
The court appoints a personal representative (executor if named in a will, administrator if intestate) and issues Letters Testamentary or Letters of Administration.
Creditors are notified; claims against the estate must be presented within the statutory period.
The personal representative inventories assets, pays valid debts and taxes, and distributes what remains according to the will or Oklahoma’s intestacy laws.
The estate is closed once a final accounting is filed and approved by the court.
What it costs
Filing fees vary by county – check with Grant County directly for current fees.
Oklahoma has a statutory attorney fee schedule for probate, which provides more predictability than states without one.
No state estate tax, no state inheritance tax. Only the federal estate tax could apply, and only to very large estates.
Probate filings, estate administration, and guardianship matters are handled by the following office(s):
Public Safety & Arrests
Arrest records, inmate search, and law enforcement services are handled by the following office(s):
SHERIFF
112 East Guthrie St, Medford, OK 73759
(580) 395-2222
Elections & Voting
Voter registration, polling locations, and elections information are handled by the following office(s):
ELECTION BOARD
112 East Guthrie St, Medford, OK 73759
(580) 395-2312
Health & Human Services
Offices & Contacts
Health services, social services, and assistance programs are handled by the following office(s):
Health Department
112 East Guthrie St, Medford, OK 73759
(580) 395-2401
Department of Human Services
112 East Guthrie St, Medford, OK 73759
(580) 395-2811
Public Health Information
PUBLIC HEALTH
Office: Grant County Health Department – Medford, OK
Related: Integris Medford Family Clinic; Great Salt Plains Health Center; Miller EMS (supported by a 1-cent county emergency services sales tax).
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County Facts
County Seat: Medford
Population: 4,300
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