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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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Carter County, Montana
Carter County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Ekalaka
Year Organized: 1917
Square Miles: 3,340 |
Court House: 214 Park Street
County Courthouse
Ekalaka, MT 59324-0315
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
Thomas Henry Carter, U.S. Senator from Montana
Demographics:
County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick
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History
Carter County was created 22 February 1917 from Custer County. County seat: Ekalaka
Carter County was named in honor of United States Senator, Thomas Carter. The county was created by an act of the
Montana State Legislature on February 22, 1917, and was opened for business May 18, 1917 with Ekalaka as the county
seat. What is now the Farmers Union Oil Company building was an old school building and also used as the courthouse.
In 1920 the new courthouse building was built and is still in use to this very day. The total population back in
1920 was 2,972.
Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 3,348 square miles (8,672 kmē), of which,
3,340 square miles (8,649 kmē) of it is land and 9 square miles (23 kmē) of it (0.26%) is water.
Ekalaka is located in the Southeastern corner of Montana and is 3,313 square miles. Farming and ranching are the
principle industries
Neighboring Counties:
- Powder River County, Montana - west
- Custer County, Montana - northwest
- Fallon County, Montana - north
- Harding County, South Dakota - east
- Butte County, South Dakota - southeast
- Crook County, Wyoming - south
Cities and Towns:
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- Ekalaka
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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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