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Eagle County, Colorado

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

County Seat: Eagle
Year Organized: 1883
Square Miles: 1,688
Court House:

500 Broadway - Box 850
County Administration Building
Eagle, CO 81631-0850

Etymology - Origin of County Name

The county is named for the Eagle River.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Eagle County was created by the Colorado legislature on February 11, 1883 from portions of Summit County. It was named after the Eagle River, which runs through the county. The county seat was originally set in Red Cliff, Colorado, but was moved to the town of Eagle in 1921.

In 2003, Kate Faber, a local woman accused Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant of sexual assault, putting the county and the town of Eagle on the map.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,692 square miles (4,382 kmē), of which, 1,688 square miles (4,372 kmē) of it is land and 4 square miles (10 kmē) of it (0.23%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

  • Northeast: Grand County
  • East: Summit County
  • Southeast: Lake County
  • Southwest: Pitkin County
  • West: Garfield County
  • Northwest: Routt County

Cities and Towns:

- Avon town Incorporated Area
- Basalt town Incorporated Area
- Eagle (County Seat) town Incorporated Area
- Gypsum town Incorporated Area
- Minturn town Incorporated Area
- Red Cliff town Incorporated Area
- Vail town Incorporated Area

County Resources:

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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."
 
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