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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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Lincoln County, Colorado
Lincoln County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
Lincoln County is the tenth most extensive of the 64 counties of the State of Colorado of the United States. The county population was 6,087 at US Census 2000. The county seat is Hugo.
County Seat: Hugo
Year Organized: 1889
Square Miles: 2,586 |
Court House: P.O. Box 39
Hugo, CO 80821-0039
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
Lincoln County is named in honor of Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick
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History
Lincoln County was created in 1889 from parts of Elbert and Bent Counties.
Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 2,586 square miles (6,699 kmē),
of which, 2,586 square miles (6,698 kmē) of it is land and 0 square miles (1 kmē) of it (0.01%) is
water.
Neighboring Counties:
- Northeast: Washington County; Kit Carson County
- East: Cheyenne County
- Southeast: Kiowa County
- Southwest: Crowley County; Pueblo County
- West: El Paso County
- Northwest: Elbert County; Arapahoe County
Cities and Towns:
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- Arriba |
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- Genoa |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Hugo
(County Seat) |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Limon |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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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