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 Click Image to Enlarge Montana CountiesThere are56 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. |
Fergus County, MontanaFergus County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
Etymology - Origin of County NameThe father of Andrew Fergus, one of the first settlers Demographics:County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts County HistoryFergus County was created 12 March 1885 from Meagher and Chouteau Counties by an act of the Fourteenth Legislative Assembly, Montana Territory, in early 1885. The Bill was sponsored by James Fergus, a delegate from Meagher County. In November of 1886 the county became officially operative. The new county of Fergus covered approximately 130 miles west to east and 90 miles from north to south. It
contained approximately 209 townships, over 7,524 square miles and 4,814,000 acres. The original Fergus County was
divided into Petroleum County and parts of Judith Basin, Wheatland, Golden Valley and all of present day Fergus
County. GeographyAccording to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 4,350 square miles (11,267 kmē), of which,
4,339 square miles (11,238 kmē) of it is land and 11 square miles (29 kmē) of it (0.26%) is water. Neighboring Counties:
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The history of our nation was a prolonged struggle to define
the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local.
And the names given the counties, our most locally based jurisdictions,
reflects the "characteristic features of this 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." |
