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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.

Cascade County, Montana

Cascade County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

County Seat: Great Falls
Year Organized: 1887
Square Miles: 2,698

Court House:

415 2nd Avenue
County Courthouse
Great Falls, MT 59401-2536

Etymology - Origin of County Name

The Great Falls of the Missouri River

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

History

Cascade County was created 12 September 1887 from Chouteau, Meagher, and Lewis and Clark Counties. County seat: Great Falls

On September 12, 1887, "An Act Creating Cascade County, its Boundaries, provisions for its organization and the officers to fill the various positions until the first election," was passed by the Territorial Legislative Assembly. Cascade County had been formed from parts of Meagher, Choteau and Lewis and Clarke* Counties. Great Falls was designated as the County Seat until otherwise determined by law. Included in the Act were portions of debts incurred by the original counties that would be paid by Cascade County,money transfers from county treasurers to be paid to the Cascade County Treasurer for the support of schools in the new county, provisions for the election of county officials, and the powers and duties of the officials.
*As was spelled in the 1887 Montana Code Book.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 7,023 km² (2,712 sq mi). 6,988 km² (2,698 sq mi) of it is land and 36 km² (14 sq mi) of it (0.51%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

Teton County, Montana - north
Chouteau County, Montana - north
Judith Basin County, Montana - east
Meagher County, Montana - south
Lewis and Clark County, Montana - west

Cities and Towns:

- Belt	city	Incorporated Area
- Cascade	town	Incorporated Area
- Great Falls (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Neihart	town	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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