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Missoula County is a county located in the State of Montana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 109,426,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/30/30063.html )〕 making it the second-most populous county in Montana. Its county seat and largest city is Missoula.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 The county was founded in 1860.〔 Missoula County comprises the Missoula, MT Metropolitan Statistical Area. ==History== Missoula County, Washington Territory was incorporated in 1860. Missoula County encompassed present-day Missoula and Deer Lodge Counties, as well as a good portion of land north and south of present-day Missoula County. Hell Gate Town, the county seat, was located at the confluence of the Clark Fork and Bitterroot Rivers. The area encompassing today's Missoula County officially became part of the United States as a result of Oregon Treaty of June 14, 1846. It was part of the Oregon Territory's Clark County, which replaced the ''District of Vancouver'' September 3, 1844. The territory was divided on March 2, 1853 with Clark County becoming part of the new Washington Territory. Clark County was divided the next year to create Skamania County, which a month later was divided to create Walla Walla County, which was further divided in 1858 to create Spokane County.〔Contributions, with transactions, Volume (1895)2. "A Sketch by Judge Frank H. Woody". Montana Historical Society.〕 Finally, on December 14, 1860 Missoula County was carved out of Spokane County with the county seat at Hell Gate. The county made up the entire region between modern-day Idaho and the Continental Divide north of the 46th parallel.〔(Missoula County 1860 )〕 When Idaho Territory was created in 1863 it adopted Missoula County as the territory's 3rd county on January 16, 1864 with more or less the same boundaries and Wordensville (Missoula) established as the county seat.〔"An Act Establishing Counties, County Boundaries, and County Seats East of the Bitter Root Mountains" Idaho Territory Session Laws: 1863-1864 p. 674-677〕〔(Washington, Oregon and Idaho Map 1863 )〕 This first county consisted of all or part of current Ravalli, Missoula, Granite, Deer Lodge, Silver Bow, Powell Mineral, Lake, Sanders, Lincoln, Flathead, and Glacier Counties. Missoula County became a part of Montana Territory when the territory was organized out of the existing Idaho Territory by Act of Congress and signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 26, 1864. At this time Deer Lodge County (today Deer Lodge, Granite, Silver Bow, and Powell Counties) was cut out of Missoula.〔(Montana Territory 1865 )〕 The creation of Flathead (today Flathead and Lincoln Counties) and Ravalli Counties in 1893, Powell in 1901, Sanders in 1905, Mineral in 1914 and finally Lake County in 1923 gave Missoula its present borders.〔(Montana History Wiki )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Missoula County, Montana」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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