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Colorado Counties
 Click Image to Enlarge Colorado CountiesColorado 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. |
Chaffee County, ColoradoChaffee County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
Etymology - Origin of County NameIt was named for Jerome B. Chaffee, Colorado's first United States Senator. Demographics:County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts County HistoryChaffee County is one of the 64 counties of the State of Colorado of the United States. The county seat is Salida. Chaffee County was created by the Colorado legislature on February 10, 1879 out of southern Lake County (although at the time, Lake County was known as Carbonate County, a designation which lasted for only two days). It is known as the Heart of the Rockies. It was named for Jerome B. Chaffee, Colorado's first United States Senator. GeographyAccording to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,015 square miles (2,629 kmē),
of which, 1,013 square miles (2,625 kmē) of it is land and 2 square miles (4 kmē) of it (0.15%) is
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The history of our nation was a prolonged struggle to define
the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local.
And the names given the counties, our most locally based jurisdictions,
reflects the "characteristic features of this 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." |
