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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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Garfield County, Montana
Garfield County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Jordan
Year Organized: 1919
Square Miles: 4,668
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Court House: P.O. Box 7
County Courthouse
Jordan, MT 59337-0007
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
Probably James A. Garfield, the twentieth President of the United States
Demographics:
County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick
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History
Garfield County was created 7 February 1919 from Dawson County. County seat: Jordan
Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 4,848 square miles (12,555 kmē), of which,
4,668 square miles (12,090 kmē) of it is land and 179 square miles (465 kmē) of it (3.70%) is water. Its average
population density of 0.1058 inhabitants/kmē (0.274/sq mi) is the third-lowest of any county outside of Alaska
(behind Loving County, Texas and Esmeralda County, Nevada).
Neighboring Counties:
- Phillips County, Montana - northwest
- Valley County, Montana - north
- McCone County, Montana - east
- Prairie County, Montana - east
- Custer County, Montana - southeast
- Rosebud County, Montana - south
- Petroleum County, Montana - west
Cities and Towns:
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- Jordan
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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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