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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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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
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
James J. Hill, a leading railroad tycoon
Demographics:
County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick
Facts
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 kmē), of which, 2,896
square miles (7,502 kmē) of it is land and 20 square miles (51 kmē) 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:
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- Havre
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- Hingham |
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County Resources:
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Online High Schools
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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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