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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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Dawson County, Montana
Dawson County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Glendive
Year Organized: 1865
Square Miles: 2,373 |
Court House: 207 W Bell Street
County Courthouse
Glendive, MT 59330-1616
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
Andrew Dawson, a trapping official and major in the United States Army
Demographics:
County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick
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History
Dawson County was created 15 January 1869 as an original county. County seat: Glendive
Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 2,383 square miles (6,172 kmē), of which,
2,373 square miles (6,146 kmē) of it is land and 10 square miles (26 kmē) of it (0.42%) is water
Neighboring Counties:
- Richland County, Montana - north
- Wibaux County, Montana - east
- Prairie County, Montana - south
- McCone County, Montana - west
Cities and Towns:
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- Glendive
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- Richey |
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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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