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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.

Delta County, Colorado

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

County Seat: Delta
Year Organized: 1883
Square Miles: 1,142

Court House:

501 Palmer Street, Suite 227
County Courthouse
Delta, CO 81416-1766

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Delta County is named for Delta, Colorado, located at the Uncompahgre River delta.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Delta County was created by the Colorado legislature on February 11, 1883, out of portions of central Gunnison County. The county was named for the City of Delta, which was named for its location on the delta of the Uncompahgre River.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,149 square miles (2,975 km²), of which, 1,142 square miles (2,958 km²) of it is land and 6 square miles (17 km²) of it (0.56%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

Southeast: Gunnison County
Southwest: Montrose County
Northwest: Mesa County

Cities and Towns:

- Cedaredge	town	Incorporated Area
- Crawford	town	Incorporated Area
- Delta (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Hotchkiss	town	Incorporated Area
- Orchard City	town	Incorporated Area
- Paonia	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!"

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."