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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. |
Gallatin County, MontanaGallatin County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
Etymology - Origin of County NameAlbert Gallatin, the United States Secretary of the Treasury at the time of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Demographics:County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts County HistoryGallatin County was created 2 February 1865 as an original county. County seat: Bozeman Gallatin County, Montana, derives its name from the Gallatin River, one of the forks of the Missouri River that rises
in Yellowstone Park, the three rivers, Gallatin, Jefferson and Madison, being named by Lewis and Clark, famous
explorers, on their expedition to this part of the world in 1805. The Gallatin River was named for Albert Gallatin, at
that time secretary of the United States Treasury under President Thomas Jefferson. Albert Gallatin was a native of
Switzerland. He was graduated from the Academy of Geneva in 1778, and came the following year to the United States,
where he became a great American statesman and one of the foremost financiers of the country. The Gallatin River has its
source in Gallatin Lake among mountain peaks with an elevation of more than 9,000 feet in Yellowstone National Park. GeographyAccording to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 2,632 square miles (6,816 kmē), of which,
2,606 square miles (6,749 kmē) of it is land and 26 square miles (67 kmē) of it (0.99%) is water. The county
attained its present boundaries on November 7, 1997, when the former Yellowstone National Park (part)
county-equivalent was dissolved and apportioned between Gallatin County and Park County. Gallatin County received
99.155 square miles (256.81 kmē) of land area and 0.119 square miles (0.309 kmē) of water area, whereas Park County
received 146.229 square miles (378.73 kmē) of land area and 0.608 square miles (1.575 kmē) of water area. The
geographies transferred are known now as Census Tract 14 in Gallatin County, and as Census Tract 6 in Park County. 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." |
