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Colorado Counties
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Colorado Counties
Colorado currently has sixty-four counties. The counties of Colorado are important components
of government since the state has no secondary civil subdivisions such as townships. Two counties, the City and
County of Denver and the City and County of Broomfield, have consolidated city and county governments..
No organized counties of the District of Louisiana, the Territory of Missouri, or the Territory of Nebraska
existed within the present boundaries of the State of Colorado. |
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Arapahoe County, Colorado
Arapahoe County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Littleton
Year Organized: 1861
Square Miles: 803 |
Court House: 5334 South Prince Street
County Administration Building
Littleton, CO 80166-0001
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
Arapahoe County is named for its predecessor county, Arapahoe County, Kansas Territory, which in turn
was named for the Arapaho Native American tribe.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick
Facts
History
Created as one of the 17 original counties of the Territory of Colorado. Renamed South Arapahoe County for five
months from 1902-11-15, to 1903-04-11.
Arapahoe County was named for the Arapaho Indians, one of the A
larger tribes of plains Indians, who along with the Cheyenne occupied
Arapahoe County east of the foothills running into what is now western
Kansas. Arapahoe County is Colorado’s first county, since almost
half of the entire area now Colorado was Arapahoe County of the
Kansas territory. In 1861, when Kansas was made a state, Colorado
was made a territory with Arapahoe County as one of the 17 original
counties.
The original Arapahoe County was 30 miles wide and extended from
Sheridan Boulevard, the present western boundary of Denver, Adams
and Arapahoe counties to the Kansas border. This peculiar shape was
due to the practice of giving counties with large amounts of plains
territory at least some of the foothill territory where there was water
for mining and irrigation. Even though Arapahoe County did not
reach the foothills, the streams running from the mountains supplied
water. As settlers came in and took up lands on the eastern portions
of the state, new counties were created and cut down to their present
size.
Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 805 square miles (2,086 kmē), of
which, 803 square miles (2,080 kmē) of it is land and 2 square miles (6 kmē) of it (0.28%) is water. The
county measures 72 miles (116 kilometers) east to west and 4 to 12 miles (6 to 19 kilometers) south to
north.
Two exclaves of Arapahoe County remain entirely surrounded by the City and County of Denver. The City of
Glendale occupies one exclave.
Neighboring Counties:
- North: Adams County
- Northeast: Washington County
- Southeast: Lincoln County; Elbert County
- Southwest: Douglas County
- West: Jefferson County
- Northwest: Denver city & county
Cities and Towns:
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- Aurora |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Centennial |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Cherry Hills |
city |
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- Cherry Hills Village |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Deer Trail |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Denver |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Englewood |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Foxfield |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Greenwood Village |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Littleton
(County Seat) |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Sheridan |
city |
Incorporated Area |
County Resources:
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County Resource Guide
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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic
features of our country!"
But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.
Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally,
act locally." |
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