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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.

Broomfield County, Colorado

Broomfield County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

County Seat: Broomfield
Year Organized: 2001
Square Miles: 34

Court House:

One DesCombes Drive
Broomfield, CO 80020-0000

Etymology - Origin of County Name

The City and County of Broomfield is named for the quantity of broom corn which was grown nearby.

Demographics:

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History

The City and County of Broomfield is a prominent suburb and tier of the Denver metropolitan area in the State of Colorado of the United States. Broomfield has a consolidated city and county government which operates under Article XX, Sections 10-13 of the Constitution of the State of Colorado.

The municipality of Broomfield was incorporated in 1961 in the southeastern corner of Boulder County. It received its name from the broomcorn grown in the area. Over the next three decades, the city grew through annexations, many of which crossed the county line into four adjacent counties: Adams, Boulder, Jefferson and Weld. In the 1990s, city leaders began to push for the creation of a separate county to avoid the inefficiencies of dealing with four separate court districts, four different county seats (each a considerable distance away), and four separate county sales tax bases. It also had longstanding political differences with Boulder County, which impelled it to separate. Broomfield reasoned that it could provide services more responsively under its own county government, and sought an amendment to the Colorado State Constitution to create a new county. The amendment passed in 1998, after which a three-year transition period followed. On November 15, 2001, Broomfield County became the 64th, newest and smallest, county of Colorado.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 27.5 square miles (71.1 km²), of which, 27.1 square miles (70.2 km²) of it is land and 0.3 square miles (0.9 km²) of it (1.24%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

Weld County, Colorado - northeast
Adams County, Colorado - southeast
Jefferson County, Colorado - southwest
Boulder County, Colorado - northwest

Cities and Towns:

- Broomfield (County Seat)

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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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