Coös County, New Hampshire
Coös County ( / koʊ.ɒs /, with two syllables) is a county located in the state of New Hampshire in the United States. The name is usually written Coos. It has 33 055 inhabitants ( as of 2010), making it by far the least populated County New Hampshire, but has the largest area. 16.17 percent of the population speak French as their mother tongue. The administrative headquarters ( County Seat) is Lancaster. The most significant economic sectors are agriculture and tourism.
History
Coös County was formed in 1803 from the northern part of Grafton County. Initially, Berlin was county seat, later it was Lancaster.
Demographics
Geography
The county has a total area of 4,743 square kilometers; of which 80 square kilometers ( 1.7 percent) of water.
Neighboring counties
Coös County borders the following other counties:
- Oxford County ( Maine), East
- Carroll County, southeast
- Grafton County, southwest
- Essex County ( Vermont), West
- Administrative Region Estrie, Quebec, Canada
Towns and Villages -free zones
Coös County is divided into a city and 19 towns. Furthermore, there are 23 unincorporated areas.
City
- Berlin
Towns
- Carroll
- Clarksville
- Colebrook
- Columbia
- Dalton
- Dummer
- Errol
- Gorham
- Jefferson
- Lancaster
- Milan
- Northumberland
- Pittsburg
- Randolph
- Shelburne
- Strongly
- Stewartstown
- Stratford
- Whitefield
Free community areas
- Atkinson and Gilmanton Academy Grant
- Bean 's Grant, Township
- Cambridge
- Chandler's Purchase
- Crawford's Purchase
- Cutt 's Grant
- Dix 's Grant
- Dixville Dixville Notch (village in the township of Dixville )