Counties of Montana | |
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Location | State of Montana |
Number | 56 |
Populations | 485 (Petroleum) – 155,634 (Yellowstone) |
Areas | 718 square miles (1,860 km2) (Silver Bow) – 5,543 square miles (14,360 km2) (Beaverhead) |
Government | County government |
Subdivisions | cities, towns, townships, unincorporated communities, Indian reservations, census designated place |
This is a list of the 56 counties in the U.S. state of 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 1978, when part of it was nominally added to Gallatin County, and the rest of it to Park County. Eight counties of the state are composed of two or more words.
Montana's postal abbreviation is MT and its FIPS state code is 30.
The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code, which is used by the United States government to uniquely identify counties, is provided for each county. The FIPS code for each county links to census data for that county.