Editing Harmon County, Oklahoma (section)

==History==
Following an election on May 22, 1909, Harmon County was created by proclamation of [[Governor of Oklahoma|Governor]] [[Lee Cruce]] on June 2. Carved from adjacent [[Greer County, Oklahoma|Greer County]], the new county was named in honor of [[Judson Harmon]], who was Governor of Ohio at the time.<ref>Joseph Nathan Kane, ''The American Counties'' (4th Ed.), (The Scarecrow Press, 1983), p149; Arrell Morgan Gibson, ''Oklahoma: A History of Five Centuries'' (University of Oklahoma Press, 1981), p208.</ref> The area now covered by Harmon County had been a part of [[Greer County, Texas]] until the U. S. Supreme Court awarded it to [[Oklahoma Territory]] in 1896.<ref name="EOHC-HarmonCo">Wilson, Linda D. [http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=HA026 "Harmon County,"] ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture'', Oklahoma Historical Society, 2009. Accessed April 4, 2015.</ref>

Another election held September 1, 1909, confirmed Hollis as the county seat. There were two other contestants: the towns of Harmon and Rosser. County offices operated in rented space until a courthouse was built in Hollis in 1926. In 1930, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the boundary between Texas and Oklahoma was actually {{convert|3800|ft|m}} farther east than originally believed. It returned the disputed land to Texas, reducing the county's area to its present size.<ref name="EOHC-HarmonCo"/>

A railroad built from Altus, Oklahoma to the Texas state line came to Hollis and Gould in 1910. The line was built by the Altus, Wichita Falls and Hollis Railway (later acquired by the [[Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad]]).<ref name="EOHC-HarmonCo"/>