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.
Population by County in the United States There are 3,143 counties in the United States. This section compares Erie County to the 50 most populous counties in the United States. The least populous of the compared counties has a population of 929,214.