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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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Toole County, Montana
Toole County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Shelby
Year Organized: 1914
Square Miles: 1,911
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Court House: 226 1st Street South
County Courthouse
Shelby, MT 59474-1952
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
Joseph Toole, the first Governor of Montana
Demographics:
County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick
Facts
History
Toole County was created 7 May 1914 from Teton and Hill Counties. County seat: Shelby
Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,946 square miles (5,040 kmē), of which,
1,911 square miles (4,949 kmē) of it is land and 35 square miles (90 kmē) of it (1.79%) is water.
Its northern boundary is the Canadian border. A part of its southern boundary is formed by Maria's River, which
flows through the south-eastern portion. In the eastern part are several creeks, the largest of which is Willow,
which rises in the Sweet Grass hills and follows a southerly course through the county. In the Sweet Grass hills and
elsewhere indications of oil and gas have been found.
Neighboring Counties:
- Glacier County, Montana - west
- Pondera County, Montana - south
- Liberty County, Montana - east
- Warner County No. 5, Alberta - north
- Village of Coutts, Alberta - north
- Forty Mile County No. 8, Alberta - northeast
Cities and Towns:
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- Kevin |
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- Shelby
(County Seat) |
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- Sunburst |
town |
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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,
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