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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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Douglas County, Colorado
Douglas County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Castle Rock
Year Organized: 1861
Square Miles: 840 |
Court House: 100 Third Street
County Administration Building
Castle Rock, CO 80104-2425
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
The county was named in honor of US Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, who died five months before the county was created.
Demographics:
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History
The county, sometimes nicknamed Dougco, is located midway between Colorado's two largest cities: Denver and Colorado Springs.
The county seat is Castle Rock, named after a small butte just north of the town. Castle Rock is located
in the Interstate 25 corridor just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains
Douglas County was one of the original 17 counties created in the Colorado Territory by the Colorado Territorial Legislature on 1861-11-01. The county was named in honor of US Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, who died five months before the county was created. The county seat was
originally Franktown, but was moved to California Ranch in 1863, and then to Castle Rock in 1874. Although the county's boundaries originally extended eastward to the Kansas state border, in 1874 most of the eastern portion of the county became part of Elbert County.
Neighboring Counties:
- Northeast: Arapahoe County
- East: Elbert County
- Southeast: El Paso County
- Southwest: Teller County; Park County
- Northwest: Jefferson County
Cities and Towns:
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- Castle Rock
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- Larkspur |
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- Littleton |
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Incorporated Area |
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- Lone Tree |
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- Parker |
town |
Incorporated Area |
County Resources:
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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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