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Montana Counties

There 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.

Hill County, Montana

Hill County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

County Seat: Havre
Year Organized: 1912
Square Miles: 2,896

Court House:

315 4th Street
County Courthouse
Havre, MT 59501-3923

Etymology - Origin of County Name

James J. Hill, a leading railroad tycoon

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Hill County was created 28 February 1912 from Chouteau County. County seat: Havre

The first non-Native American settlement was Fort Assinniboine in 1875. Fifteen of the original 104 structures from the fort are still standing. The county is named after James J. Hill.

Geography

Hill County is on the "Hi-Line" in North-Central Montana. It borders Blaine County to the East, Liberty County to the West, Chouteau County to the South, and Canada to the North. Highway 2 runs through Hill County.

Hill County contains Beaver Creek park, which is the largest county park in the Nation.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 2,916 square miles (7,553 km²), of which, 2,896 square miles (7,502 km²) of it is land and 20 square miles (51 km²) of it (0.68%) is water.

It is one of the few locations in the United States to have an antipodal point on land, and its community of Rudyard is the only populated such place. The Kerguelen Islands are on the opposite side of the earth from parts of Hill County, while the antipodal points of almost all other places in the United States lie in the Indian Ocean.

Neighboring Counties:

Liberty County, Montana - west
Chouteau County, Montana - south
Blaine County, Montana - east
Cypress County, Alberta - north
Reno No. 51, Saskatchewan - north

Cities and Towns:

- Havre (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Hingham	town	Incorporated Area

County Resources:

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County Resources

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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."