🏢 Register a Business Name

Register a Business Name in Adair County, OK

This service isn't handled by the County Clerk. Here's where to go instead.

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In Oklahoma, a DBA is filed with the Secretary of State

A trade name report, 18 O.S. § 1140 — not a filing at the Adair County courthouse

File with:Oklahoma Secretary of State

$25.00trade name report · 18 O.S. § 1142(A)(1)

What the state requires.A corporation or other business entity doing business under any name other than its legal name “shall file a report with the Secretary of State” (18 O.S. § 1140(A)), and “business entity” includes any unincorporated business, including any form of partnership (§ 1140(B)). The report is form FM0021 and costs $25.00. A partnership trading under a fictitious name files a fictitious name certificate with the Secretary of State instead (54 O.S. § 81), for $50.00(54 O.S. § 1-105(g)(9)). Both figures match the Secretary of State's own fee page.

🖥️Oklahoma Secretary of State — Business ServicesFile online, search names, order copies↗📄Download the Trade Name Report (FM0021)Filing fee $25.00 — mail-in form↓ PDF

A separate county filing some county clerks still take

This is a different thing from the Secretary of State filing above, and both are stated here as facts, nothing more. The County Clerk fee statute still contains a line for “recording and filing of fictitious name partnership certificates” ($5.00, 28 O.S. § 32(A)(12)), a fee line that survived the 1997 move of the fictitious-name filing to the Secretary of State. 32 of Oklahoma's 77 county clerks publish a fee for a county fictitious-name filing on their own fee schedules. Adair County is not among the 32 — no county fictitious-name fee appears on any Adair County schedule we read.

📄Download Form — fill it out at homeTrade Name Report (form FM0021) — complete it before you go↓

$25filing fee · 18 O.S. § 1142(A)(1)

File with the Oklahoma Secretary of State, not the county. A partnership's fictitious name certificate is a separate Secretary of State filing, $50 (54 O.S. § 1-105(g)(9)).

📋Office Information

⚠️ This office does not process DBA registration. Use the agency linked above. The office below is your county's County Clerk — useful for other services.

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Not printed: street address, phone, hours, website — there is no official website to take them from.

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County Seat

Stilwell

Where this came from

Street address: the only source is adaircountycourthouse.com, which no official source identifies as Adair County's website (checked 2026-09-26: the state's county-website list, the court system's feed, the State Election Board, the State Auditor's audits and oklahoma.gov), so nothing from it is printed.
Phone: the only source is adaircountycourthouse.com, which no official source identifies as Adair County's website (checked 2026-09-26: the state's county-website list, the court system's feed, the State Election Board, the State Auditor's audits and oklahoma.gov), so nothing from it is printed.
Hours: the only source is adaircountycourthouse.com, which no official source identifies as Adair County's website (checked 2026-09-26: the state's county-website list, the court system's feed, the State Election Board, the State Auditor's audits and oklahoma.gov), so nothing from it is printed.
Website: the only source is adaircountycourthouse.com, which no official source identifies as Adair County's website (checked 2026-09-26: the state's county-website list, the court system's feed, the State Election Board, the State Auditor's audits and oklahoma.gov), so nothing from it is printed.

We could not confirm a phone number, address or website for the County Clerk's office. Ask at the county courthouse in Stilwell.

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