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Office: Harmon County Emergency Management – Hollis, OK 73550
Related: Harmon County Sheriff’s Office – Hollis, OK; Harmon Memorial Hospital Emergency Room – 400 E Chestnut Street, Hollis, OK 73550, (580) 688-3363, 24 hours.
Roads & Utilities
ROADS & TRANSPORTATION
Roads: US-62 and SH-30 meet at Hollis, the county seat, in the far southwest corner of Oklahoma near the Texas border
Transit: Limited; primarily auto-dependent – confirm current regional options directly with the county. Hollis Municipal Airport is located north of town on Highway 30.
Business & Permits
BUILDING & PERMITS
Office: Harmon County Clerk – 114 W. Hollis, Hollis, OK 73550 | (580) 688-3658 | Hours: Mon–Fri 8 AM–4 PM
Notes: Contact the City of Hollis for in-town permit requirements.
Veterans Services
VETERANS SERVICES
County VSO: Harmon County Veterans Service Officer – Harmon County Courthouse, Hollis, OK
Libraries
LIBRARIES
System: Hollis Public Library – W Broadway & 2nd Street, Hollis, OK 73550 | (580) 688-2744
Services: Part of the Southern Prairie Library System, serving all of Harmon County’s educational, recreational, and informational needs.
Parks & Recreation
PARKS & RECREATION
Key Assets: Harmon County is genuinely Oklahoma’s second-least populous county, and its history is directly tied to the same landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court boundary dispute that shaped neighboring Greer County – the land now covered by Harmon County had been part of “Greer County, Texas” until the Court’s decision transferred it to Oklahoma Territory; Harmon County itself wasn’t carved out as its own separate county until 1909, when area residents voted 1,410 to 326 in favor of splitting off from Greer County, and Governor Charles N. Haskell proclaimed it Oklahoma’s 76th county on June 2, 1909, naming it for Judson Harmon, a former Ohio governor and U.S. attorney general under President Grover Cleveland; a follow-up election that September saw Hollis defeat the rival townsites of Harmon and Rosser to become the permanent county seat; the town of Hollis itself has a genuinely charming founding story – it was platted in 1898 by townsite company members including the Hollis family (who had arrived at the site during a blizzard that same November), with the original plat reportedly sketched on the lid of a shoe box, which was later lost, requiring a fresh plat to be drawn and filed in 1903; Hollis also holds a genuine and unusual claim to local fame – quadruplet girls born to Flake and Alma Keys in 1915 received considerable notoriety during their lifetime, a rare event in that era; the county today celebrates its agricultural heritage each October with the Cotton Pickin’ Festival (previously held each August as the Black-Eyed Pea Festival), which supports the Harmon County Historical Museum, housed in the Abernethy Building with rotating pioneer-era displays, dinosaur fossils, and a covered wagon and blacksmith shop exhibit; the county has also been informally nicknamed the “Irrigation Center of the Southwest” for its farming and ranching economy centered on wheat, cotton, and sorghum
Notes: Harmon County’s genuine, well-documented origins in the historic Greer County boundary dispute – paired with the charming lost-shoebox-lid founding story of Hollis – make it one of the more distinctively told small-county histories found anywhere in this project.
GIS & Maps
GIS & MAPS
GIS Portal: Harmon County GIS – contact the Harmon County Courthouse for current parcel/GIS access
Parcel Search: Harmon County Assessor – 114 W. Hollis, Hollis, OK 73550, (580) 688-2529
Addressing/911: Coordinated through Harmon County Emergency Management
Animal Services
ANIMAL SERVICES
Notes: No dedicated county-run animal shelter or animal control department was confirmed in available sources for Harmon County. For strays or animal concerns, contact the Harmon County Sheriff’s Office or Hollis City Hall. The nearest confirmed regional shelters are in larger Oklahoma cities such as Altus – contact directly to confirm whether they accept intake from Harmon 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. Lake Hall provides fishing and recreational opportunities within the county.
NOTES
Harmon County is genuinely a former part of “Greer County, Texas,” transferred to Oklahoma by the same 1896 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that established neighboring Greer County. 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 Harmon County County
Harmon County is Oklahoma’s southwest corner cotton and peanut plains county – the North Fork of the Red River and the flat agricultural landscape near the Texas border define a community where Hollis serves the county’s farming families in the remote southwest Oklahoma interior.
Hollis (the county seat, population ~1,900) is Harmon County’s governmental hub on US 83, a southwest Oklahoma agricultural community whose cotton and peanut farming, North Fork Red River access, and courthouse anchor its identity near Texas.
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Harmon County Assessor at 114 W. Hollis Street, Hollis, OK 73550, phone 580-688-3617. OK assessed at 11% of fair cash value for residential.
Courts & Legal
Harmon County District Court at 114 W. Hollis Street, Hollis, OK 73550, phone 580-688-3617, handles probate.
Marriage & Vital Records
Marriage licenses, divorce records, and birth & death certificates are handled by the following office(s):
COUNTY CLERK
114 West Hollis St, Hollis, OK 73550
(580) 688-3617
COURT CLERK
114 West Hollis St, Hollis, OK 73550
(580) 688-3658
Genealogy
County-level record sources
Harmon County District Court, Hollis (probate/estate case files – see Probate section above).
Local societies
No dedicated Harmon 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
Harmon County District Court 114 West Hollis Street, Hollis, OK 73550 (580) 688-3617 Harmon County is in southwestern Oklahoma along the Texas border, seated in Hollis.
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 Harmon 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
114 West Hollis St, Hollis, OK 73550
(580) 688-3454
Elections & Voting
Voter registration, polling locations, and elections information are handled by the following office(s):
ELECTION BOARD
114 West Hollis St, Hollis, OK 73550
(580) 688-3811
Health & Human Services
Offices & Contacts
Health services, social services, and assistance programs are handled by the following office(s):
Health Department
114 West Hollis St, Hollis, OK 73550
(580) 688-3760
Department of Human Services
114 West Hollis St, Hollis, OK 73550
(580) 688-3610
Public Health Information
PUBLIC HEALTH
Office: Harmon County Health Department – Hollis, OK
Related: Harmon Memorial Hospital – 400 E Chestnut Street, Hollis, OK 73550, (580) 688-3363, 24-hour ER, accepts Medicaid/Medicare/private insurance.
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County Facts
County Seat: Hollis
Population: 2,600
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