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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.

Cheyenne County, Colorado

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

County Seat: Cheyenne Wells
Year Organized: 1889
Square Miles: 1,782

Court House:

P.O. Box 567
County Courthouse
Cheyenne Wells, CO 80810-0567

Etymology - Origin of County Name

It was named after the Cheyenne Indians who occupied eastern Colorado.

Demographics:

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County History

Cheyenne County is the fifth least densely populated of the 64 counties of the State of Colorado of the United States. The county population was 2,231 at US Census 2000. The county seat is Cheyenne Wells.

Cheyenne County was created with its present borders by the Colorado legislature on March 25, 1889 out of portions of northeastern Bent County and southeastern Elbert County. It was named after the Cheyenne Indians who occupied eastern Colorado.

Neighboring Counties:

North: Kit Carson County
East: Wallace County, Kan.
Southeast: Greeley County, Kan.
Southwest: Kiowa County
West: Lincoln County

Cities and Towns:

- Cheyenne Wells (County Seat)	town	Incorporated Area
- Kit Carson	town	Incorporated Area

County Resources:

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County Resources

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!"

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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."