This is a List of counties in New Hampshire. There are currently 10 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 and 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; Coos County, named for a Native American word meaning crooked and referring to a bend in the Connecticut River. 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.
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 is 001, Addison County, Vermont and 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.
| County Seat|
| Formed from|
|Belknap County||001||Laconia||1840||Parts of Merrimack County and Strafford County.||Jeremy Belknap (1744-1798), early New Hampshire historian.||56,325|| 401 sq mi|
( 1,039 km²)
|Carroll County||003||Ossipee||1840||Part of Strafford County.||Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1732-1832), the last surviving signer of the United States Declaration of Independence.||43,666|| 934 sq mi|
( 2,419 km²)
|Cheshire County||005||Keene||1769||One of five original counties.||English county of Cheshire.||73,825|| 708 sq mi|
( 1,834 km²)
|Coos County||007||Lancaster||1803||Part of Grafton County.||A Native American word meaning crooked, in reference to a bend in the Connecticut River.||33,111|| 1,801 sq mi|
( 4,665 km²)
|Grafton County||009||Haverhill||1769||One of five original counties.||Augustus Henry Fitzroy (1735-1811), a Prime Minister of Great Britain (1768-1770).||81,743|| 1,714 sq mi|
( 4,439 km²)
|Hillsborough County||011|| Manchester|
|1769||One of five original counties.||Wills Hill (1718-1793), known in America as the Earl of Hillsborough.||380,841|| 876 sq mi|
( 2,269 km²)
|Merrimack County||013||Concord||1823||Parts of Hillsborough County and Rockingham County.||The Merrimack River.||136,225|| 934 sq mi|
( 2,419 km²)
|Rockingham County||015||Brentwood||1769||One of five original counties.||Charles Watson-Wentworth (1730-1782), a two-time Prime Minister of Great Britain (1765-1766, 1782).||277,359|| 695 sq mi|
( 1,800 km²)
|Strafford County||017||Dover||1769||One of five original counties.||William Wentworth (1626-1695).||112,233|| 369 sq mi|
( 956 km²)
|Sullivan County||019||Newport||1827||Part of Cheshire County.||John Sullivan (1740-1795), the third and fifth governor of New Hampshire (1786-1788, 1789-1790).||40,458|| 537 sq mi|
( 1,391 km²)
- ^ Stackpole, Everett Schermerhorn (1916). History of New Hampshire. The American Historical Society.
- ^ a b "New Hampshire Counties". New Hampshire Almanac. http://www.nh.gov/nhinfo/ffcounties.html. Retrieved 2007-07-24.
- ^ a b "EPA County FIPS Code Listing". US Environmental Protection Agency. http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/codes/nh.html. Retrieved 2007-07-24.
- ^ a b c d "NACo - Find a county". National Association of Counties. http://www.naco.org/Template.cfm?Section=Find_a_County&Template=/cffiles/counties/state.cfm&state.cfm&statecode=NH. Retrieved 2007-07-24.
- ^ "New Hampshire Counties". The NHGenWeb Project. http://www.usroots.com/~usgwnhus/counties.htm. Retrieved 2007-07-24.
- ^ a b "New Hampshire QuickFacts". U.S. Census Bureau. http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/maps/new_hampshire_map.html. Retrieved 2007-07-24. (2000 Census)
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