OVER 2,700 COUNTIES.
Topeka, Kan.
I have just read a statement in a newspaper that there are 2,400 counties in the United States, which is doubted. We therefore ask The Inter Ocean to give us the facts.
R. E. Hinckley.
Answer.—This is an understatement, since in 1880, according to the census, there were 2,671 counties in the United States, including the fifty-nine in Louisiana, locally called parishes. Here is the full list of States and Territories:
| No. of | |
| States. | Counties |
| Alabama | 66 |
| Arkansas | 75 |
| California | 53 |
| Colorado | 32 |
| Connecticut | 8 |
| Delaware | 3 |
| Florida | 45 |
| Georgia | 137 |
| Illinois | 102 |
| Indiana | 92 |
| Iowa | 99 |
| Kansas | 113 |
| Kentucky | 117 |
| Louisiana | 59 |
| Maine | 16 |
| Maryland | 24 |
| Massachusetts | 14 |
| Michigan | 82 |
| Minnesota | 86 |
| Mississippi | 75 |
| Missouri | 117 |
| Nebraska | 80 |
| Nevada | 17 |
| New Hampshire | 10 |
| New Jersey | 21 |
| New York | 60 |
| North Carolina | 94 |
| Ohio | 88 |
| Oregon | 26 |
| Pennsylvania | 67 |
| Rhode Island | 5 |
| South Carolina | 33 |
| Tennessee | 94 |
| Texas | 232 |
| Vermont | 14 |
| Virginia | 99 |
| West Virginia | 54 |
| Wisconsin | 63 |
| 2,472 | |
| Territories. | |
| Arizona | 7 |
| Dakota | 94 |
| Idaho | 13 |
| Montana | 11 |
| New Mexico | 14 |
| Utah | 27 |
| Washington | 25 |
| Wyoming | 7 |
| Dis. of Columbia | 1 |
| Total | 2,671 |
There have been a number of new counties organized since the census year, particularly in Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, and other States and Territories where the settlement of the country is proceeding most rapidly. There are now about 2,730 counties in the United States.
CARDINAL WOLSEY.