Editing Cotton County, Oklahoma (section)

==Economy==
The county's economy has long revolved around agriculture, specifically crops such as cotton and wheat and livestock such as cattle and poultry.<ref name="cottonpedia"/> Beginning in the late 1910s, oil and gas grew as a strong industry, the county had 290 producing wells in 1920, 32 of which were gas.<ref name="cottonpedia"/> The southern portion of the county had Devol refineries, pumping stations, and pipelines.<ref name="cottonpedia"/> A large retail outlet, Temple's B & O Cash Store, shipped merchandise nationwide, before being bought by [[Sears, Roebuck and Company|Sears and Roebuck]] in 1929 and later closed in 1954.<ref name="cottonpedia"/>

In 1997 the county held 69,988 cattle and ranked eleventh in the state for poultry sold.<ref name="cottonpedia"/>