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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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Jefferson County, Montana
Jefferson County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Boulder
Year Organized: 1864
Square Miles: 1,657
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Court House: PO Box H, 201 Centennial
County Courthouse
Boulder, MT 59632-0249
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States
Demographics:
County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick
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History
Jefferson County was created 2 February 1865 as an original county. County seat: Boulder
Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,659 miles (2,670 km). Of this total, 1,657
miles (2,667 km) of it is land, and 2 square miles (5.2 kmē) of it (0.13%) is water.
Neighboring Counties:
- Lewis and Clark County, Montana - north
- Broadwater County, Montana - east
- Gallatin County, Montana - southeast
- Madison County, Montana - south
- Silver Bow County, Montana - west
- Deer Lodge County, Montana - west
- Powell County, Montana - northwest
Cities and Towns:
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- Boulder
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- Whitehall |
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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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