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Montana Counties
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Montana Counties
There are 56 counties in Montana. Montana has two consolidated city-counties—Anaconda
with Deer Lodge County and Butte with Silver Bow County. The portion of Yellowstone National Park that lies
within Montana was not part of any county until 1997, when part of it was nominally added to Gallatin County,
and the rest of it to Park County.
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Anaconda-Deer Lodge County, Montana
Anaconda-Deer Lodge County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Anaconda
Year Organized: 1864
Square Miles: 737
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Court House: 800 Main Street
County Courthouse
Anaconda, MT 59711-2950
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
Deer Lodge Valley, which in turn was either named for the Native American name "Lodge of the White-tailed Deer"
or a salt lick where deer came in droves
Demographics:
County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick
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History
Deer Lodge was created 2 February 1865 as an original county. The county seat is Anaconda.
Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 741 square miles (1,920 kmē), of which, 737
square miles (1,909 kmē) of it is land and 4 square miles (11 kmē) of it (0.57%) is water
Located in western Montana, the city of Anaconda is the county seat of Deer Lodge County. In the late nineteenth
century, Anaconda was a thriving mining metropolis.
The county area is 741 square miles, characterized by densely timbered forest lands, lakes and recreation
grounds. The county has common borders with Beaverhead, Butte-Silver Bow, Granite, Jefferson and Powell counties.
Neighboring Counties:
- Granite County, Montana - northwest
- Powell County, Montana - north
- Jefferson County, Montana - east
- Silver Bow County, Montana - southeast
- Beaverhead County, Montana - south
- Ravalli County, Montana - west
Cities and Towns:
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- Anaconda
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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,
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