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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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Blaine County, Montana
Blaine County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Chinook
Year Organized: 1895
Square Miles: 4,226 |
Court House: PO Box 278
Chinook, MT 59523-0278
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
James G. Blaine, United States Secretary of State and presidential candidate
Demographics:
County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick
Facts
History
Blaine County was created 29 February 1912 from Chouteau County. County seat: Chinook
Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 4,239 square miles (10,979 kmē), of which,
4,226 square miles (10,946 kmē) of it is land and 13 square miles (33 kmē) of it (0.30%) is water.
Neighboring Counties:
- Hill County, Montana - west
- Chouteau County, Montana - south
- Fergus County, Montana - south
- Phillips County, Montana - east
- Reno No. 51, Saskatchewan - north
- Frontier No. 19, Saskatchewan - north
- Lone Tree No. 18, Saskatchewan - north
Cities and Towns:
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- Chinook
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- Harlem |
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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,
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