About Ottawa County Free Fair

The Ottawa County Free Fair in Miami is an August fair in the Tri-State mineral district of the far northeast corner of Oklahoma, celebrating the lead and zinc mining, cattle, and Quapaw and Cherokee tribal heritage of a county at the junction of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri along the Neosho River.

What to Expect

Expect livestock shows, FFA and 4-H competitions, local food vendors, and a fair in the rolling tallgrass prairie and former lead-zinc mining country of the Ozark border.

Visitor Tips

Miami is the Ottawa County seat — the Dobson Museum and the Coleman Theatre Beautiful (a 1929 Fox Deluxe venue on the National Register of Historic Places) preserve the heritage of this once-booming mining district, and the Tar Creek Superfund site (a legacy of the lead-zinc mines) is an important environmental history lesson in this corner of the old Quapaw Agency.

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