WSP04621

• File Number: 8407.500
• Description: Missouri River basin Comprehensive Framework Study-Volume 1- Report
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 12/1/1971
• Author: Missouri Basin Inter
• Title: Missouri River Basin Comprehensive Framework Study - Volume I - Report
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

FIGURE 12.
POPULATION DENSITY-1960
BY COUNTIES

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Table 3 - NUMBE R OF COUNTI ES BY STATES
WITHIN THE MISSOURI BASIN

Number Number
of of
State Counties State Counties
Minnesota 3 Montana 47
Wyoming t9 Kansas 54
Colorado 20 Missouri 65
North Dakota 29 SOllth Dakota 68
Iowa 29 Nebraska 93

shown in table 4, that were inventoried for this study.
Five others within this size category did not have formal
city government and were not included. Several of the
incorporated places are within the Standard Metro-
politan Statistical Areas (SMSA) and are included as a
part of the respective SMSA in the ] 960 population
studies.

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MINNESOTA

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In addition to Stale, county, and city governments,
there are several forms of special-purpose districts that
have legal authority for water and related land resource
development, management, and utilizatiun. Among these
are irrigation, conservancy, soil and water conservation,
watershed, drainage, flood control, grazing, rllral water
supply, recreation, sanitary improvement, and electric
power districts. They have varying authority for the
planning, financing, constructi.on,. and operation and
management of water and related land resource develop-
ments. The types of districts and their legal authority
vary among the several states, as discussed in chapter 6.

EXISTING ECONOMY

Today, as in the past, agriculture is an important
means of livelihood and the major producer of basic