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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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Fallon County, Montana
Fallon County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Baker
Year Organized: 1913
Square Miles: 1,620 |
Court House: 10 West Fallon
County Courthouse
Baker, MT 59313-0846
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
Benjamin O'Fallon, a Federal Native American agent
Demographics:
County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick
Facts
History
All of SoutheasterFallon County was created 9 December 1913 from Custer County. County seat: Baker
n Montana was Custer County in those early days. In 1913, effort was being made to have the large
counties broken into smaller units. The fight was hot and heavy with rallies in every precinct featuring free dances
where liquor flowed freely. Each proposed county attempted to get the largest possible area. Wibaux to the north was the
roughest competitor in that respect, but Ekalaka was Baker's rival for the county seat of this southeast section.
Ekalaka won, but the following year, on re-election, Baker became the seat of Fallon County. In 1917, Ekalaka pulled
away and formed its own county of Carter.
Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,623 square miles (4,204 kmē), of which,
1,620 square miles (4,197 kmē) of it is land and 3 square miles (7 kmē) of it (0.17%) is water.
Neighboring Counties:
- Wibaux County, Montana - north
- Prairie County, Montana - northwest
- Custer County, Montana - west
- Carter County, Montana - south
- Harding County, South Dakota - southeast
- Bowman County, North Dakota - east
- Slope County, North Dakota - east
- Golden Valley, North Dakota - northeast
Cities and Towns:
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- Baker
(County Seat) |
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Incorporated Area |
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- Plevna |
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,
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