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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.

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

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 Facts

County 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 km²), of which, 2,586 square miles (6,698 km²) of it is land and 0 square miles (1 km²) 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:

- Arriba	town	Incorporated Area
- Genoa	town	Incorporated Area
- Hugo (County Seat)	town	Incorporated Area
- Limon	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."