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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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Musselshell County, Montana
Musselshell County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Roundup
Year Organized: 1911
Square Miles: 1,867 |
Court House: 506 Main Street
County Courthouse
Roundup, MT 59072-2426
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
The Musselshell River, named in turn by the Lewis and Clark Expedition presumably due to mussels found on its
banks
Demographics:
County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick
Facts
History
Musselshell County was created 11 February 1911 from Fergus and Yellowstone Counties. County seat: Roundup
Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,871 square miles (4,846 kmē), of which,
1,867 square miles (4,836 kmē) of it is land and 4 square miles (10 kmē) of it is water. The total area is 0.20%
water.
Neighboring Counties:
- Fergus County, Montana - northwest
- Petroleum County, Montana - north
- Rosebud County, Montana - east
- Yellowstone County, Montana - south
- Golden Valley County, Montana - west
Cities and Towns:
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- Melstone |
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- Roundup
(County Seat) |
city |
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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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