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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
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Cheyenne County, Colorado
Cheyenne County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Cheyenne Wells
Year Organized: 1889
Square Miles: 1,782
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Court House: P.O. Box 567
County Courthouse
Cheyenne Wells, CO 80810-0567
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
It was named after the Cheyenne Indians who occupied eastern Colorado.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick
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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:
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- Cheyenne Wells
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- Kit Carson |
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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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