Editing Adair County, Oklahoma (section)

==History==
The county was created in 1906 from the [[Goingsnake#Death and honors|Goingsnake]] and Flint districts of the [[Cherokee Nation]].<ref name="adairpedia"/> There was a decade-long struggle over what town would become the county seat between [[Stilwell, Oklahoma|Stilwell]] and [[Westville, Oklahoma|Westville]].<ref name="stilwellpedia">{{cite encyclopedia
  |last=Barker |first=Betty Starr |url=http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=ST038
  |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture |publisher=[[Oklahoma Historical Society]]
  |title=Stilwell |access-date=June 13, 2010}}</ref> When the county was formed, Westville was identified as the county seat, due partly to its location at the intersection of two major railroads: the [[Kansas City Southern Railway]] and the [[St. Louis – San Francisco Railway]].<ref>{{cite book |title=A History of the State of Oklahoma  |last=Hill |first=Luther B.  |year=1910 |volume=I
  |page=470 |publisher=The Lewis Publishing Company  |url=https://archive.org/stream/ahistorystateok00hillgoog#page/n504/mode/2up}}</ref> The county seat was moved to Stilwell in 1910.<ref>Oklahoma Almanac 2005</ref>

During the [[Great Depression]] and [[World War II]], strawberries became a major crop in Adair County. In 1948, the first Stilwell Strawberry Festival was organized. The 2002 festival saw some 40,000 people in attendance.<ref name="stilwellpedia"/>

The 1910 census counted 10,535 residents.<ref name="adairpedia"/> By 1990, it was up to 18,421.<ref name="adairpedia"/>