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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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Judith Basin County, Montana
Judith Basin County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Stanford
Year Organized: 1920
Square Miles: 1,870
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Court House: PO Box 427, 31 1st Avenue
County Courthouse
Stanford, MT 59479-0427
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
The Judith River which was in turn named by William Clark for Julia "Judith" Hancock, whom he would later marry
Demographics:
County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick
Facts
History
Judith Basin County was created 10 December 1920 from Fergus and Cascade Counties. County seat: Stanford
Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,871 square miles (4,845 kmē), of which,
1,870 square miles (4,843 kmē) of it is land and 1 square miles (2 kmē) of it (0.05%) is water.
Neighboring Counties:
- Chouteau County, Montana - north
- Fergus County, Montana - east
- Wheatland County, Montana - south
- Meagher County, Montana - south
- Cascade County, Montana - west
Cities and Towns:
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- Hobson |
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- Stanford
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County Resources:
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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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