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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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Wheatland County, Montana
Wheatland County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Harlowton
Year Organized: 1917
Square Miles: 1,423 |
Court House: 201 A Avenue, NW
County Courthouse
Harlowton, MT 59036-1903
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
The many wheat fields in the county
Demographics:
County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick
Facts
History
Wheatland County was created 22 February 1917 from Meagher and Sweet Grass Counties. County seat: Harlowtown
Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,428 square miles (3,699 kmē), of which,
1,423 square miles (3,686 kmē) of it is land and 5 square miles (13 kmē) of it (0.36%) is water.
Neighboring Counties:
- Judith Basin County, Montana - north
- Fergus County, Montana - north
- Golden Valley County, Montana - east
- Sweet Grass County, Montana - south
- Meagher County, Montana - west
Cities and Towns:
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- Harlowton
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- Judith Gap |
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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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