8,573 people (2024 Census estimate, −1.5% since 2020)
928 square miles of land · 9 people per square mile
“Highest” and “lowest” are just order, not grades: a high rank for poverty or hazard losses means more of it. Each figure's source is in its section below.
8 active community water systems list Blaine County in the area they serve, reporting 7,551 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| WATONGA groundwater · local government · OK2000602 | 2,816 served |
| GEARY groundwater · local government · OK2000608 | 1,258 served |
| OKEENE groundwater · local government · OK2000612 | 1,240 served |
| NORTH BLAINE WATER CORP groundwater · private · OK2000606 | 960 served |
| CANTON groundwater · local government · OK2000607 | 650 served |
| LONGDALE groundwater · local government · OK2000611 | 363 served |
| HITCHCOCK PUBLIC WORKS AUTH. groundwater · local government · OK2000610 | 141 served |
| GREENFIELD PWA buys groundwater · local government · OK3000606 | 123 served |
Source: U.S. EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), active community systems, . Look up any system's violations and test results with EPA's search using its ID.
About 35 people were held in Blaine County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 702 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 45.
Source: Vera Institute of Justice, Incarceration Trends (built from federal Bureau of Justice Statistics jail surveys). Counties without their own jail, or that share one, may show no figure.
5 school districts have their office in Blaine County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $16.1 million — $10.4 million to run schools, about $14,213 per student, plus $5.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $8.1 million local (mostly property tax), $7.3 million state, $1.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $5.3 million.
Spent $6.2 million — $5.6 million to run schools, about $11,567 per student, plus $546,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.7 million local (mostly property tax), $3.2 million state, $797,000 federal. Long-term debt: $2.4 million.
Spent $7.1 million — $6.9 million to run schools, about $19,963 per student, plus $86,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.2 million local (mostly property tax), $3.2 million state, $964,000 federal. Long-term debt: $3.5 million.
Spent $6.8 million — $5 million to run schools, about $15,360 per student, plus $1.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3 million local (mostly property tax), $3.7 million state, $770,000 federal. Long-term debt: $1.5 million.
Spent $7.8 million — $7.2 million to run schools, about $28,652 per student, plus $687,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.7 million local (mostly property tax), $2.6 million state, $827,000 federal.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 Annual Survey of School System Finances. Districts are listed by the county of their main office; some serve neighboring counties too.
Source: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps 2025 (University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute), which gathers federal data (CDC, Census, and others); measures cover different recent years. Blank lines aren't reported for small counties.
Overall risk: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Blaine County about $9.5 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
272 bridges in Blaine County: 184 in good condition, 69 fair, and 19 poor (7.0%). “Poor” means a main part — the deck, the beams, or the supports — is rated 4 or lower on the federal 0–9 scale. It doesn't mean unsafe to drive; unsafe bridges are closed.
| STATE HIGHWAY 58A over CANTON LAKE SPILLWAY · built 1948 | 730 vehicles a day |
| E0660 over N. CANADIAN RIVER · built 1915 | 100 vehicles a day |
| 0636C over CREEK · built 1937 | 100 vehicles a day |
| E0700 over CREEK · built 1950 | 100 vehicles a day |
| E0710 over BITTER CREEK · built 1982 | 100 vehicles a day |
| E0780 over NORTH CANADIAN RIVER · built 1950 | 100 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $3 million of work in Blaine County in fiscal 2025, about $345 per resident — to the county, cities, schools, hospitals, nonprofits and others.
Source: USAspending.gov, grants by place of performance, fiscal 2025 (Oct. 2024 to Sept. 2025). Search it by county to see each award.
From Grants.gov: posted grants listing county governments as eligible, soonest deadline first; research-only and overseas programs left out; list updated 2026-10-13, refreshed weekly. 62 are open in all. Cities, towns, school districts and nonprofits have their own lists there.
Registration deadlines, early voting and polling places for Oklahoma are on the federal site vote.gov, which links to the state's official election office.
The budget, property tax rates, audits, local officials and offices for Blaine County come from the county's own records, which we haven't gathered — not gathered, never hidden. See what a full county site looks like, or ask to have Blaine County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Kingfisher County (28 mi) · Major County (31 mi) · Dewey County (33 mi) · Canadian County (34 mi) · Custer County (36 mi) · Caddo County (49 mi).