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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.

Park County, Montana

Park County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

County Seat: Livingston
Year Organized: 1887
Square Miles: 2,656

Court House:

414 East Callendar
County Courthouse
Livingston, MT 59047-2799

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Nearby Yellowstone National Park

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

History

Park County was created 23 February 1887 from Gallatin County. County seat: Livingston

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 2,814 square miles (7,287 km²), of which, 2,802 square miles (7,258 km²) of it is land and 11 square miles (29 km²) of it (0.40%) is water. The county attained its present boundaries on November 7, 1997, when the former Yellowstone National Park (part) county-equivalent was dissolved and apportioned between Gallatin County and Park County. Gallatin County received 99.155 square miles (256.81 km²) of land area and 0.119 square miles (0.309 km²) of water area, whereas Park County received 146.229 square miles (378.73 km²) of land area and 0.608 square miles (1.575 km²) of water area. The geographies transferred are known now as Census Tract 14 in Gallatin County, and as Census Tract 6 in Park County.

Neighboring Counties:

Gallatin County, Montana - west
Meagher County, Montana - north
Sweet Grass County, Montana - east
Stillwater County, Montana - east
Carbon County, Montana - east
Park County, Wyoming - south

Park Counties in Montana and Wyoming are among the very few pairs of counties in the United States with the same name to border each other across state lines.

Cities and Towns:

- Clyde Park	town	Incorporated Area
- Livingston (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area

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, act locally."

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