🏢 Register a Business Name

Register a Business Name in Washita 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 Washita 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. Washita County is not among the 32 — no county fictitious-name fee appears on any Washita 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

Cordell

Where this came from

Street address: Washita County publishes no official website for this office, and the only statewide list of County Clerks (the Oklahoma Almanac 2021–22, Oklahoma Department of Libraries) is unreliable for it: in at least 9 counties it gives the Court Clerk's phone or address instead of the County Clerk's, so none is printed.
Phone: Washita County publishes no official website for this office, and no source we could verify gives the County Clerk's own number, so none is printed. Ask for the County Clerk's office at the county courthouse in Cordell.
Hours: Washita County publishes no official website for this office, and the only statewide list of County Clerks (the Oklahoma Almanac 2021–22, Oklahoma Department of Libraries) is unreliable for it: in at least 9 counties it gives the Court Clerk's phone or address instead of the County Clerk's, so none is printed.
Website: Washita County publishes no official website.

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

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