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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

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Bighorn sheep in the area

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County 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:

- Hardin (County Seat) city Incorporated Area
- Lodge Grass town Incorporated Area

County Resources:

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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."
 
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