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AROOSTOOK COUNTY
QUICK FACTS

  • Aroostook County Population: 71,870 - US Census Bureau Data 2010
  • Population is 5.4% of the state's total population
  • Originally part of Washington and Penobscot Counties
  • Aroostook is named for an Indian word meaning "beautiful river"
  • Incorporated March 16, 1839
  • Contains 2 cities, 54 towns, 11 plantations, and 108 unorganized townships
  • Density is 11.1 persons per square mile
  • Area - 6,672 square miles (21.6% of the state's area): 89% of the County's area is forest, 1% lakes, ponds and rivers, 10% cultivated farmland
  • Houlton is the Aroostook County seat with offices in Caribou and Fort Kent
  • Maine's northernmost county bordered to the east, west and north by Canada
  • Aroostook County is larger than Connecticut and Rhode Island combined
  • Major crops: broccoli, potatoes, hay, small grain rotation crops
  • Site of two transatlantic balloon crossing launch sites
  • Aroostook County is home to the Allagash Wilderness Waterway

COUNTY GOVERNMENT

County government is Maine's oldest form of government, pre-dating statehood and even the Declaration of Independence. The State of Maine has 16 counties, Aroostook being the largest.

County government is the only form of regional government whose officials are directly elected by the voters. There has always been a role for county government, providing democratic institutions that operate at the regional level between municipalities and the state.

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