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Montana Counties
There are fifty-six 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.Hill County, Montana
Hill County Education, Geography, and History
Hill County is a county located in the state of Montana. Based on the 2010 census, the population was 16,096. Its county seat is Havre. It is south from the Canadian borders of Alberta and Saskatchewan.
Etymology - Origin of Hill County Name
The county is named after James J. Hill, president of the Great Northern Railway Company, which built the rail line across Montana as part of the Transcontinental Railroad to the Pacific coast.
Demographics:
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Hill County History
Hill County was created 28 February 1912 from Chouteau County. County seat: Havre
The first non-Native American settlement was Fort Assinniboine in 1875. Fifteen of the original 104 structures from the fort are still standing. The county is named after James J. Hill.
Geography: Land and Water
Hill County is on the "Hi-Line" in North-Central Montana. It borders Blaine County to the East, Liberty County to
the West, Chouteau County to the South, and Canada to the North. Highway 2 runs through Hill County.
Hill County contains Beaver Creek park, which is the largest county park in the Nation.
As reported by the Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 2,916 square miles (7,553 km2), of which, 2,896
square miles (7,502 km2) of it is land and 20 square miles (51 km2) of it (0.68%) is water.
It is one of the few locations in the United States to have an antipodal point on land, and its community of Rudyard
is the only populated such place. The Kerguelen Islands are on the opposite side of the earth from parts of Hill
County, while the antipodal points of almost all other places in the United States lie in the Indian Ocean.
Neighboring Counties
Bordering counties are as follows:
- Liberty County, Montana - west
- Chouteau County, Montana - south
- Blaine County, Montana - east
- Cypress County, Alberta - north
- Reno No. 51, Saskatchewan - north
Education
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