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Chaffee County, Colorado

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

 

Chaffee County is one of the 64 counties of the State of Colorado of the United States. The county population was 16,242 at US Census 2000. The county seat is Salida.

 

 

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Named: It was named for Jerome B. Chaffee, Colorado's first United States Senator.

 

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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.

Neighboring Counties:
  • Northeast: Park County
  • Southeast: Fremont County
  • South: Saguache County
  • West: Gunnison County
  • Northwest: Pitkin County; Lake County
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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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