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 Click Image to Enlarge Montana CountiesThere are56 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. |
Carbon County, MontanaCarbon County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
Etymology - Origin of County NameCoal deposits in the area Demographics:County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts County HistoryCarbon County is located in south central Montana. Carbon County was created on March 4, 1895 from portions of Park
and Yellowstone counties and includes an area of 2,066 square miles. The county seat is located in Red Lodge; other
towns located within Carbon County include Bearcreek, Belfry, Bridger, Fromberg, Edgar, Silesia, Joliet, Boyd, Roberts,
Luther and Roscoe. To the south and west lie the picturesque Beartooth Mountains whose lofty peaks include Montana’s
highest, Granite Peak with an elevation of 12,799 feet. Flowing from the mountains, the Clark’s Fork of the Yellowstone
River meanders through central portions of the county. On the eastern edge of the county are the Pryor Mountains and the
Big Horn River. Coal deposits were originally discovered in the Red Lodge area, those portions were ceded from the Crow
Indian Reservation to allow for development. The Rocky Fork Railroad was constructed to access those coal deposits. As
the Crow Indian Reservation diminished settlers moved in to acquire 160 acre homesteads. Settlers arrived from such
diverse locations as England, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Scandinavia, Finland, Austria,Yugoslavia, Italy and Russia.
Many of those early residents worked in the coal mines in the area, the largest of which were located between Red Lodge
and Bearcreek. Oil and gas were also discovered in Carbon County with two abundant fields, the Dry Creek Field and the
Elk Basin Fields. As the demand for coal dwindled, agriculture became a mainstay in the region, with cattle and hay
primarily in the mountain areas and foothills, while more cropland opportunities lay in the Clark’s Fork Valley. GeographyAccording to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 2,062 square miles (5,341 kmē), of which,
2,048 square miles (5,304 kmē) of it is land and 14 square miles (37 kmē) of it (0.69%) is water. Neighboring Counties:
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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." |
