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# Aroostook County Population: 73,938 - US Census Bureau Data 2000
# Population is 5.8% 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
# Aroostook County Population: 73,938 - US Census Bureau Data 2000
# Population is 5.8% 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