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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.

Teller County, Colorado

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

Teller County is the 22nd most populous of the 64 counties of the State of Colorado of the United States. The county population was 20,555 at US Census 2000. The county seat is Cripple Creek. The Colorado Springs Metropolitan Statistical Area comprises El Paso County and Teller County.

County Seat: Cripple Creek
Year Organized: 1899
Square Miles: 557

Court House:

P.O. Box 959
County Courthouse
Cripple Creek, CO 80813-0959

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Teller County was named after United States Senator Henry M. Teller.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

History

Teller County was named after United States Senator Henry M. Teller. Teller County was calved from the western slope of Pikes Peak, then entirely within El Paso County, in 1899.

Teller County was named after United States Senator Henry M. Teller. Teller County was calved off of the western slope of Pikes Peak, then entirely within El Paso County, in 1899 after particularly brutal repression of a miners' strike by the El Paso County Sheriff's Department. The miners, organized in the early days of the populist labor movement, set up their own government with their own protection in the boomtown gold camp at Cripple Creek. Another strike in 1903 sparked an even more significant conflict referred to as the Colorado Labor Wars.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 559 square miles (1,448 km²), of which, 557 square miles (1,443 km²) of it is land and 2 square miles (5 km²) of it (0.34%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

North: Jefferson County
Northeast: Douglas County
East: El Paso County
Southwest: Fremont County
Northwest: Park County

Cities and Towns:

- Cripple Creek (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Victor	city	Incorporated Area
- Woodland Park	city	Incorporated Area

County Resources:

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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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