Eagle County, Colorado

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

Eagle County is the thirteenth most populous of the 64 counties of the State of Colorado of the United States. The county is named for the Eagle River. The county population was 41,659 at U.S. Census 2000. The county seat is the Town of Eagle. The Edwards Micropolitan Statistical Area comprises Eagle County and Lake County.

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Named: The county is named for the Eagle River.

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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.

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

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Eagle County, Colorado

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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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