Belknap, Carroll, Cheshire, Coos, Grafton, Hillsborough, Merrimack, Rockingham, Strafford, Sullivan

New Hampshire Counties

There arecurrently 10 Counties in the state of New Hampshire. Five of the Counties were created in 1769, when New Hampshire was still an English colony and not a state, during the first subdivision of the state into counties. The last Counties created were Belknap County and Carroll County, in 1840. The majority of New Hampshire's Counties were named for prominent British or American people or geographic locations and features. Only one county's name originates in a Native American language; Coos County, named for a Native American word meaning crooked and referring to a bend in the Connecticut River.