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Coös County (, with two syllables) or Coos County is the northernmost
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in the
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. As of the 2020 census, the population was 31,268, making it the least-populated county in the state. The
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is Lancaster. Coös County is part of the Berlin, NH–VT Micropolitan Statistical Area. It is the only New Hampshire county on the
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, south of the province of
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, and thus is home to New Hampshire's only international port of entry, the Pittsburg–Chartierville Border Crossing. The only city in Coös County is
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, with the rest of the communities being towns, or unincorporated townships, gores and grants. Major industries in Coös County include
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and
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, with the once-dominant paper-making industry in sharp decline. The county straddles two of the state's tourism regions. The southernmost portion of the county is part of the White Mountains Region and is home to Mount Washington. The remainder of the county is known as the Great North Woods Region, or known locally as the North Country.


Toponymy

The name ''Coös'', the diaeresis indicating a disyllable, derives from a
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word meaning "small pines". Coös is one of two counties in the United States that has a diacritic in its name, the other being Doña Ana County in
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. The county government sometimes respects the diaeresis but sometimes omits it, using it on only some of its vehicles, for example. The Lancaster-based weekly newspaper ''The Coös County Democrat'' is one of the local businesses that remains loyal to the traditional spelling.


History

Coös County was separated from the northern part of
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, and organized at
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on December 24, 1803, although the
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was later moved to Lancaster, with an additional shire town at Colebrook. During the
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two units of troops of the
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and Whitcomb's Rangers — were raised from the settlers of Coös. From the Treaty of Paris of 1783 until 1835, the boundaries in the northern tip of the county (and New Hampshire itself) were disputed with
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(which was soon to become part of the
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), and for some years residents of the area formed the independent Republic of Indian Stream. In the 1810 census, there were 3,991 residents, and by 1870 there were nearly 15,000, at which point the entire county was valued at just under , with farm productivity per acre comparing favorably with that of contemporary
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. Other early industries included
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and manufacturing, using 4,450 water
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in 1870.


Geography

According to the
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, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (1.9%) is water. It is the largest county in New Hampshire by area, and borders both
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and
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, as well as
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. Much of its mountainous area is reserved as national forest, wilderness, state parks and other public areas; these encompass most of the northern portion of the White Mountains, including all the named
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of the
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(though one, Mt. Webster, lies about from the county line). Mt. Washington's peak is the highest in the Northeast. The Cohos Trail runs the length of the county. The principal
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in Coös County are
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, which runs mostly parallel to the Maine state line and through the city of
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, and New Hampshire Route 26, which traverses the Great North Woods from Vermont Route 102 southeast to Maine Route 26 towards Portland. The two major U.S. Highways are
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, which roughly bisects the county from Lancaster to the Oxford County line, and
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, which runs from Carroll in the south to the Pittsburg–Chartierville Border Crossing, where it continues as Quebec Route 257. Coös County is the least populated of all New Hampshire counties, and the only one with significant amounts of unincorporated land; over half of the municipal-like entities are unincorporated townships, gores, or grants, a rarity in New Hampshire, where nearly all of the land is incorporated as
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or
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. The population of these unincorporated territories is minuscule; collectively they account for less than 1% of the population of the county, with only three ( Wentworth Location, Millsfield, and
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) reporting populations in the double digits for recent censuses. Approximately 1/3 of the population lives in
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, the only city, most populous municipality, and economic hub. Lancaster serves as the
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.


Mountains

* White Mountains (in the
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) *
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Adjacent counties

* Oxford County, Maine (east) * Carroll County (southeast) * Grafton County (southwest) *
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(west) * Coaticook Regional County Municipality, Quebec,
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(north) * Le Haut-Saint-François Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada (north) * Le Granit Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada (north)


National protected areas

* Umbagog National Wildlife Refuge (part) * Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge (part) *
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(part)


Demographics


2020 census

As of the
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of 2020, there were 31,268 people.


2010 census

As of the
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of 2010, there were 33,055 people, 14,171 households, and 8,879 families residing in the county. The population density was . There were 21,321 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the county was 96.9% white, 0.5% Asian, 0.4% American Indian, 0.4% black or African American, 0.3% from other races, and 1.4% from two or more races. Those of Hispanic or Latino origin made up 1.2% of the population. Of the 14,171 households, 25.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 48.5% were married couples living together, 9.2% had a female householder with no husband present, 37.3% were non-families, and 30.3% of all households were made up of individuals. The average household size was 2.23 and the average family size was 2.72. The median age was 46.4 years. 18.9% of the population were under the age of 18, 6.7% were from age 18 to 24, 22.1% were from 25 to 44, 32.9% were from 45 to 64, and 19.4% were age 65 or older. The median age was 46.4 years. For every 100 females there were 103.4 males, and for every 100 females age 18 and older, there were 101.8 males. During the period 2011–2015, the largest self-reported ancestry groups in the county were 39.3% French or
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, 16.9% Irish, 14.2% English, 7.2% "American", 5.5% Italian, 4.9% German, and 3.6% Scottish. During 2011–2015, the estimated median annual income for a household in the county was $42,312, and the median income for a family was $55,385. Male full-time workers had a median income of $41,934 versus $34,859 for females. The
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for the county was $24,546. About 9.9% of families and 14.1% of the population were below the
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, including 21.7% of those under age 18 and 8.2% of those age 65 or over.


Politics and government

Coös County has supported the winner of the presidential election (at the national level) in all but three elections since
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, when it supported
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, respectively.


County Commission

The executive power of Coös County's government is held by three county commissioners, each representing one of the three commissioner districts within the county. In addition to the County Commission, there are five directly elected officials: they include County Attorney, Register of Deeds, County Sheriff, Register of Probate, and County Treasurer.


New Hampshire General Court

Coös County sends members to the
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for seven districts (districts are numbered within each county), and are represented by nine representatives (the New Hampshire House of Representatives has both single-member and multiple-member districts). After the 2024 elections, the party distribution of representatives was as follows:


Media


Radio

* WMOU - 1230 AM,
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- Nostalgia * WOTX - 93.7 FM, Groveton -
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- "The Outlaw" *
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- 94.9 FM, Mount Washington -
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- "America's Superstation" ''(serves
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; broadcasts from Mount Washington)'' * W238BP - 95.3 FM,
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- "Magic 104" - Rebroadcast of WVMJ, North Conway * W251BD - 98.1 FM,
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- "Magic 104" - Rebroadcast of WVMJ, North Conway * WYKC - 99.1 FM, Jefferson -
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- "K-LOVE" * WXXS - 102.3 FM, Lancaster -
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- "Kiss 102.3" * WPKQ - 103.7 FM, North Conway - ''(broadcasts from Mount Washington)'' * WEVC - 107.1 FM, Gorham - New Hampshire Public Radio (Compiled fro
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can also be received in Coös County, the strongest being CITE-FM-1 102.7 FM. For details of stations, see Template:Sherbrooke Radio.


Television

* W34DQ-D - Pittsburg - Channel 34, rebroadcast of New Hampshire Public Television (NHPTV) * W27BL -
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- Channel 27, rebroadcast of
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( ABC) Coös County is part of the Portland- Auburn DMA. Cable companies carry local market stations WPFO ( Fox), WMTW (ABC), WGME ( CBS), and WCSH (
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), plus NHPTV, WMUR and select stations from the Burlington / Plattsburgh market. Sherbrooke stations CKSH-DT (
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station CBMT-DT (
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) are also available, though reception and/or cable carriage may vary by location.


Newspapers

* ''The Colebrook Chronicle'' - Weekly published Fridays from Colebrook, circulation 6,000. Also produces weekly Video New of the Week embedded at website * ''The Coös County Democrat'' - Weekly published Wednesdays from Lancaster * ''The News and Sentinel'' - Weekly in Colebrook * ''The Berlin Daily Sun'' * ''The Berlin Reporter'' - Weekly published Wednesdays from
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* ''Great Northwoods Journal'' - Weekly from Lancaster, publication ceased January 2013 * ''The North Woods Weekly'' - Weekly from Lancaster, published by The News and Sentinel


Communities


City

*
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Towns

* Carroll * Clarksville * Colebrook * Columbia * Dalton * Dummer * Errol * Gorham * Jefferson * Lancaster (county seat) *
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* Pittsburg * Randolph * Shelburne * Stark * Stewartstown * Stratford * Whitefield


Townships

Numbers in parentheses indicate each township's population per the 2020 census. * Atkinson and Gilmanton Academy Grant (0) * Bean's Grant (0) * Bean's Purchase (0) *
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(16) * Chandler's Purchase (0) * Crawford's Purchase (0) * Cutt's Grant (0) * Dix's Grant (0) * Dixville (4) * Erving's Location (0) * Green's Grant (0) * Hadley's Purchase (0) *
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(0) * Low and Burbank's Grant (0) * Martin's Location (2) * Millsfield (25) * Odell (1) * Pinkham's Grant (0) * Sargent's Purchase (0) * Second College Grant (1) *
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(4) * Thompson and Meserve's Purchase (1) * Wentworth Location (28)


Census-designated places

* Colebrook * Gorham * Groveton * Lancaster * West Stewartstown * Whitefield


Villages

* Beatties * Bretton Woods *
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* Dixville Notch * North Stratford *
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* Tinkerville * Twin Mountain


In popular culture

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, who once lived in
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in neighboring Grafton County, wrote the poem "The Witch of Coös". Coös County is the setting for the
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novel '' Last Night in Twisted River'', Twisted River being a logging settlement in the county.


See also

* National Register of Historic Places listings in Coös County, New Hampshire


References


External links

*
University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension: Coös County office


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