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Garfield County
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county in Montana, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Montana
- Founded
- February 7, 1919
- Seat
- Jordan
- Largest town
- Jordan
- Total
- 4,847 sq mi (12,550 km )
- Land
- 4,675 sq mi (12,110 km )
- Water
- 172 sq mi (450 km ) 3.6%
- Estimate 2025
- 1,148
- Density
- 0.2509/sq mi (0.09688/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−7 ( Mountain )
- Summer dst
- UTC−6 ( MDT )
- Congressional district
- 2nd
- Website
- garfieldcountymt .com
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Garfield County is a county located in the U.S. state of Montana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,173. Its county seat is Jordan. Garfield County is noteworthy as the site of the discovery and excavation of four of the world's dozen or so major specimens (as of 1994) of Tyrannosaurus rex. A cast of the skull of one of these dinosaurs is on display at the Garfield County Museum.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Garfield County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.