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{{Short description|None}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2024}} {{Infobox subdivision type | name = Counties of New Hampshire | alt_name = | map = {{New Hampshire County Labelled Map}} | category = | territory = [[State of New Hampshire]] | start_date = | current_number = 10 | number_date = | population_range = 31,094 ([[Coös County, New Hampshire|Coös]]) – 430,462 ([[Hillsborough County, New Hampshire|Hillsborough]]) | area_range = {{Convert|369|sqmi}} ([[Strafford County, New Hampshire|Strafford]]) – {{Convert|1801|sqmi}} ([[Coös County, New Hampshire|Coös]]) | government = [[County government]] | subdivision = cities, towns, townships, villages, unincorporated territories, [[census designated place]] }} There are ten [[County (United States)|counties]] in the [[U.S. state]] of [[New Hampshire]]. Five of the counties were created in 1769, when New Hampshire was still an English colony and not a state, during the first subdivision of the state into counties. The last counties created were [[Belknap County, New Hampshire|Belknap County]] and [[Carroll County, New Hampshire|Carroll County]], in 1840. The majority of New Hampshire's counties were named for prominent British or American people or geographic locations and features. Only one county's name originates in a Native American language: [[Coös County, New Hampshire|Coös County]], named for an [[Algonquian languages|Algonquian]] word meaning "small pines". The counties tend to be smaller in land area towards the southern end of the state, where New Hampshire population is concentrated, and larger in land area in the less populous north.<ref>{{cite book | last =Stackpole | first =Everett Schermerhorn | title =History of New Hampshire | url =https://archive.org/details/historyofnewhamp00stac | publisher =The American Historical Society | year =1916}}</ref><ref name="Almanac">{{cite web|url=http://www.nh.gov/nhinfo/ffcounties.html |title=New Hampshire Counties |access-date=July 24, 2007|work=New Hampshire Almanac }}</ref> The FIPS county code is the five-digit Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code which uniquely identifies counties and county equivalents in the United States. The three-digit number is unique to each individual county within a state, but to be unique within the entire United States, it must be prefixed by the state code. This means that, for example, while [[Belknap County, New Hampshire|Belknap County]], [[New Hampshire]] is 001, [[Addison County, Vermont|Addison County]], [[Vermont]] and [[Alachua County, Florida|Alachua County]], [[Florida]] are also 001. To uniquely identify Belknap County, New Hampshire, one must use the state code of 33 plus the county code of 001; therefore, the unique nationwide identifier for Belknap County, New Hampshire is 33001. The links in the column [[FIPS County Code]] are to the Census Bureau Info page for that county.<ref name="epa">{{cite web |url=http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/codes/nh.html |title=EPA County FIPS Code Listing |access-date=July 24, 2007 |work=US Environmental Protection Agency }}</ref> {{clear}} ==List== {|class="wikitable sortable" align="center" style="border: 1px solid #88a; background: #f7f8ff; padding: 5px; font-size: 95%; text-align: center;" |- style="background-color: #ccf" | ! style="vertical-align: bottom;"|County ! style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 65px;" |FIPS code<br /><ref name="epa" /> ! style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 90px;" | [[County seat]]<br/><ref name="NACO">{{cite web|url=http://www.naco.org/Template.cfm?Section=Find_a_County&Template=/cffiles/counties/state.cfm&state.cfm&statecode=NH |title=NACo - Find a county |work=National Association of Counties |access-date=July 24, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070711120228/http://www.naco.org/Template.cfm?Section=Find_a_County&Template=%2Fcffiles%2Fcounties%2Fstate.cfm&state.cfm&statecode=NH |archive-date=July 11, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ! style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 40px;" | {{abbr|Est.|Established}}<br/><ref name="NACO" /> ! style="vertical-align: bottom;" | Formed from<br /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usroots.com/~usgwnhus/counties.htm |title=New Hampshire Counties |access-date=July 24, 2007 |work=The NHGenWeb Project |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070713172930/http://www.usroots.com/~usgwnhus/counties.htm |archive-date=July 13, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ! style="vertical-align: bottom;" | Etymology<br /><ref name=Almanac/> ! style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 75px;" | Population<br/><ref name="USCB">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/ME/PST045219|title=U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: New Hampshire|work=State & County QuickFacts|access-date=March 15, 2025}}</ref> ! style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 75px;" | Area<br/><ref name="NACO" /><ref name="USCB" /> ! style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 102px;" class="unsortable"|Map |- {{Countyrow|N=33|Num=001|Name=Belknap |Seat=Laconia |Data1=1840 |Data2=Parts of Merrimack County and Strafford County. |Data3=[[Jeremy Belknap]] (1744–1798), early New Hampshire historian. |Population=65257|Population Density=151.22|Area=401 |Size=80px }} {{Countyrow|N=33|Num=003|Name=Carroll |Seat=Ossipee |Data1=1840 |Data2=Part of Strafford County. |Data3=[[Charles Carroll of Carrollton]] (1737–1832), the last surviving signatory of the [[United States Declaration of Independence]]. |Population=52580|Population Density=50.62|Area=934 |Size=80px}} {{Countyrow|N=33|Num=005|Name=Cheshire |Seat=Keene |Data1=1769 |Data2=One of five original counties. |Data3=[[England|English]] county of [[Cheshire]]. |Population=78078|Population Density=107.21|Area=708 |Size=80px}} {{Countyrow|N=33|Num=007|Name=Coös |Seat=Lancaster |Data1=1803 |Data2=Part of Grafton County. |Data3=An [[Algonquian languages|Algonquian]] word meaning "small pines". |Population=31094|Population Density=17.33|Area=1801|Size=80px}} {{Countyrow|N=33|Num=009|Name=Grafton |Seat=Haverhill |Data1=1769 |Data2=One of five original counties. |Data3=[[Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton]] (1735–1811), a [[Prime Minister of Great Britain]] (1768–1770). |Population=93045|Population Density=52.11|Area=1714 |Size=80px}} {{Countyrow|N=33|Num=011|Name=Hillsborough |Noseat=[[Manchester, New Hampshire|Manchester]]<br />and<br />[[Nashua, New Hampshire|Nashua]] |Data1=1769 |Data2=One of five original counties. |Data3=[[Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire]] (1718–1793), known in America as the [[Earl of Hillsborough]], who served as the first [[Secretary of State for the Colonies]].|Population=430462|Population Density=464.24|Area=876 |Size=80px}} {{Countyrow|N=33|Num=013|Name=Merrimack |Seat=Concord |Data1=1823 |Data2=Parts of Hillsborough County and Rockingham County. |Data3=The [[Merrimack River]]. |Population=157869|Population Density=158.45|Area=934 |Size=80px}} {{Countyrow|N=33|Num=015|Name=Rockingham |Seat=Brentwood |Data1=1769 |Data2=One of five original counties. |Data3=[[Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham]] (1730–1782), a two-time [[Prime Minister of Great Britain]] (1765–1766, 1782). |Population=322433|Population Density=434.21|Area=695 |Size=80px}} {{Countyrow|N=33|Num=017|Name=Strafford |Seat=Dover |Data1=1769 |Data2=One of five original counties. |Data3=[[William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford]] (1626–1695), an English noble who owned colonial lands. |Population=134202|Population Density=343.69|Area=369 |Size=80px}} {{Countyrow|N=33|Num=019|Name=Sullivan |Seat=Newport |Data1=1827 |Data2=Part of Cheshire County. |Data3=[[John Sullivan (general)|John Sullivan]] (1740–1795), the third and fifth [[governor of New Hampshire]] (1786–1788, 1789–1790). |Population=44012|Population Density=80.01|Area=537 |Size=80px}} |} == Further reading== * {{cite web |last1=writer |first1=Statf |author-link1= |collaboration= |df= |year=2022 |location= |title=NEW HAMPSHIRE COUNTY GOVERNMENT OVERVIEW |url=https://ce.naco.org//app/profiles/CountyGov/CountyGov_33000.pdf |url-access= |format= |department= |website=ce.naco.org |type= |language= |edition= |agency=National Association of Counties (NACo) |arxiv= |asin= |asin-tld= |bibcode= |bibcode-access= |biorxiv= |citeseerx= |doi= |doi-access= |doi-broken-date= |eissn= |hdl= |hdl-access= |isbn= |ismn= |issn= |jfm= |jstor= |jstor-access= |lccn= |medrxiv= |mr= |oclc= |ol= |ol-access= |osti= |osti-access= |pmc= |pmc-embargo-date= |pmid= |rfc= |sbn= |ssrn= |s2cid= |s2cid-access= |zbl= |id= |url-status= |archive-url= |archive-format= |archive-date= |access-date=January 3, 2025 |quote-page= |quote-pages= |quote= |ref= }} ==References== {{Reflist}} <br /> {{U.S. Counties}} {{New Hampshire}} {{Featured list}} {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Counties In New Hampshire}} [[Category:New Hampshire counties| ]] [[Category:Lists of counties of the United States by state|New Hampshire]] [[Category:New Hampshire geography-related lists|Counties]]
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