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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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Flathead County, Montana
Flathead County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Kalispell
Year Organized: 1893
Square Miles: 5,099 |
Court House: 800 South Main Street
County Courthouse
Kalispell, MT 59901-5435
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
Flathead Native Americans
Demographics:
County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick
Facts
History
Flathead County was created 6 February 1893 from Missoula County. County seat: Kalispell
Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 5,256 square miles (13,614 kmē), of which,
5,098 square miles (13,205 kmē) of it is land and 158 square miles (410 kmē) of it (3.01%) is water. The western
part of Glacier National Park is located in the county.
Neighboring Counties:
- Lincoln County, Montana - west
- Sanders County, Montana - southwest
- Lake County, Montana - south
- Missoula County, Montana - southeast
- Powell County, Montana - southeast
- Lewis and Clark County, Montana - southeast
- Teton County, Montana - east
- Pondera County, Montana - east
- Glacier County, Montana - east
- Regional District of East Kootenay, British Columbia - north
Cities and Towns:
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- Columbia Falls |
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- Kalispell
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- Whitefish |
city |
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County Resources:
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County Resource Guide
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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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