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.
There are 77. One of them, Cimarron County at the tip of the Panhandle, has the distinction of being the only US county that is bordered by four different States. It touches Câ¦olorado, Kansas, New Mexico and Texas.