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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.

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

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Thomas Henry Carter, U.S. Senator from Montana

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

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 km²), of which, 3,340 square miles (8,649 km²) of it is land and 9 square miles (23 km²) 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:

- Ekalaka (County Seat)

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Incorporated Area

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, act locally."

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