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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.

Summit County, Colorado

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

Summit County is the 19th most populous of the 64 counties of the State of Colorado of the United States. The county population was 25,399 at US Census 2000. The county seat is Breckenridge. The Silverthorne Micropolitan Statistical Area comprises Summit County

County Seat: Breckenridge
Year Organized: 1861
Square Miles: 608

Court House:

P.O. Box 68
County Courthouse
Breckenridge, CO 80424-0068

Etymology - Origin of County Name

It was named for the many mountain summits in the county.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Summit County was organized as one of the seventeen original Colorado counties by the First Territorial Legislature on November 1, 1861. It was named for the many mountain summits in the county. Until February 2, 1874, its boundaries included the area now comprising Summit County, Grand County, Routt County, Moffat County, Garfield County, Eagle County, and Rio Blanco County.

In 1874, the northern half of the original Summitt County was split off to form Grand County; with the creation of Garfield and Eagle counties in 1883, Summitt County arrived at its present boundaries.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 619 square miles (1,604 km²), of which, 608 square miles (1,575 km²) of it is land and 11 square miles (29 km²) of it (1.79%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

North: Grand County
East: Clear Creek County
Southeast: Park County
Southwest: Lake County
West: Eagle County

Cities and Towns:

- Blue River	town	Incorporated Area
- Breckenridge (County Seat)	town	Incorporated Area
- Dillon	town	Incorporated Area
- Frisco	town	Incorporated Area
- Montezuma	town	Incorporated Area
- Silverthorne	town	Incorporated Area

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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."