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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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Big Horn County, Montana
Big Horn County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Hardin
Year Organized: 1913
Square Miles: 4,995 |
Court House: 121 W 3rd Street, PO Box 908
County Courthouse
Hardin, MT 59034-1905
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
Bighorn sheep in the area
Demographics:
County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick
Facts
History
Big Horn County was created 13 January 1913 from Rosebud and Yellowstone Counties.
Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 5,015 square miles (12,988 kmē), of which,
4,995 square miles (12,936 kmē) of it is land and 20 square miles (51 kmē) of it (0.40%) is water. Most of the
county's land area comprises Indian reservations: The Crow Indian Reservation covers 64.2 percent of its area, while
the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation covers another 6.37 percent.
Neighboring Counties:
- Carbon County, Montana - west
- Yellowstone County, Montana - northwest
- Treasure County, Montana - north
- Rosebud County, Montana - northeast
- Powder River County, Montana - east
- Sheridan County, Wyoming - south
- Big Horn County, Wyoming - southwest
Cities and Towns:
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- Hardin
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- Lodge Grass |
town |
Incorporated Area |
County Resources:
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Online High Schools
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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,
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