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Teton County, Wyoming
Teton County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Jackson
Year Organized: 1921
Square Miles: 4,222
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Court House: P.O. Box 3594
County Courthouse
Jackson, WY 83001-3594
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Named: Named for the Teton Mountains. Indians called them Tee-win-ot, three pinnacles. French trappers applied the name "Les Trois Tetons".
State & County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Teton County was organized in 1921. Teton County, Wyoming is one of the few counties in the United States to border its namesake in another state--in this case, Teton County, Idaho.
Neighboring Counties:
- Park County (north)
- Fremont County (east)
- Sublette County (southeast)
- Lincoln County (south)
- Bonneville County, Idaho and Teton County, Idaho (southwest)
- Fremont County, Idaho (west)
- Gallatin County, Montana (northwest)
Cities:
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County Resources:
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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,
act locally."
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