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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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Lake County, Montana
Lake County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Polson
Year Organized: 1923
Square Miles: 1,494
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Court House: 106 4th Avenue
County Courthouse
Polson, MT 59860-2125
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
Flathead Lake
Demographics:
County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick
Facts
History
Lake County was created 11 May 1923 from Flathead and Missoula Counties. County seat: Polson
Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,654 square miles (4,283 kmē), of which,
1,494 square miles (3,869 kmē) of it is land and 160 square miles (414 kmē) of it (9.67%) is water. Over two-thirds
(67.7%) of the county's land lies within the Flathead Indian Reservation.
Neighboring Counties:
- Flathead County, Montana - north & east
- Missoula County, Montana - east & south
- Sanders County, Montana - west
Cities and Towns:
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- Polson
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- Ronan |
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- St. Ignatius |
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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,
act locally." |
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