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Sanders County
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county in Montana, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Montana
- Named after
- Wilbur Fiske Sanders
- Seat
- Thompson Falls
- Largest city
- Thompson Falls
- Total
- 2,790 sq mi (7,200 km )
- Land
- 2,761 sq mi (7,150 km )
- Water
- 29 sq mi (75 km ) 1.1%
- Estimate 2025
- 14,062
- Density
- 4.49/sq mi (1.73/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−7 ( Mountain )
- Summer dst
- UTC−6 ( MDT )
- Congressional district
- 1st
- Website
- www .co .sanders .mt .us
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Wilbur F. Sanders
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Montana
- Contains
- Thompson Falls
- Capital
- Thompson Falls
- Population
- 12400
- Area
- 7226
- Shares border with
- Bonner County
- Official website
- www.co.sanders.mt.us
- Image
- SANDERS COUNTY JAIL, THOMPSON FALLS, SANDERS COUNTY, MONTANA.jpg
- Households
- 5281
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- Commons category
- Sanders County, Montana
- topic's main category
- Category:Sanders County, Montana
- inception
- 1905-00-00
- water as percent of area
- 1.1
- native label
- Sanders County
- per capita income
- 26103
Sources (9)
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Encyclopedic overview
Sanders County is a county in the U.S. state of Montana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 12,400. Its county seat is Thompson Falls. The county was founded in 1905.
It has an annual county fair with rodeo at Plains.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sanders County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.