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Place Name
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Cascade County
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Place Status (Type)
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county
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Capital is
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Great Falls
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Population
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77,691 (1990)
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Location
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Montana, United States, North America
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Latitude
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47°19'N
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Longitude
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111°21'W
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Cascade
, county (
2,711 sq mi/7,021 sq km; 1990
pop. 77,691), W central Mont.;  Great Falls; 47°19'N
111°21'W. Agr. and mining region drained by Missouri, Sun, and Smith
rivers. Wheat, barley oats, hay, some corn, potatoes, cattle, sheep,
hogs, dairying, timber. Part of Lewis and Clark Natl. Forest in E and
SE and part of Little Belt Mts. in SE. Giant Springs State Park in N
near Great Falls; Sluice Boxes State Park in SE; most of Benton L.
Natl. Wildlife Refuge in N; Sulphur Springs in NE; Ulm Pishkun State
Park in NW, seat of large buffalo jump, or pishkun. Formed
1887.
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