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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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Liberty County, Montana
Liberty County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Chester
Year Organized: 1920
Square Miles: 1,430
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Court House: 111 1st Street East
County Courthouse
Chester, MT 59522-0459
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
The sentiment of the inhabitants when the county was formed soon after World War I
Demographics:
County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick
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History
Liberty County was created 11 February 1920 from Chouteau and Hill Counties. County seat: Chester
Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,447 square miles (3,748 kmē), of which,
1,430 square miles (3,703 kmē) of it is land and 17 square miles (45 kmē) of it (1.21%) is water.
Neighboring Counties:
- Toole County, Montana - west
- Pondera County, Montana - southwest
- Chouteau County, Montana - south
- Hill County, Montana - east
- Forty Mile County No. 8, Alberta - north
Cities and Towns:
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- Chester
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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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