Posse Comitatus Act and offered essential review and guidance. The Combined Arms Research Library (CARL) at Fort Leavenworth was also a crucial asset in this endeavor.
Including those, there are 3,077 counties in the US, an average of 62 counties per state. The state with the fewest counties is Delaware (three), and the state with the most is Texas (254). In many states, counties are subdivided into townships or towns and may contain other independent, self-governing municipalities.
This is the list of coastal counties that NOAA recommends for the Bureau of the Censusâ. Statistical Abstract publication series. There are 672 coastal counties including the District of Columbia in the United States. (285 in the Atlantic, 142 in the Gulf of Mexico, 87 in the Pacific, and 158 in the Great. Lakes).