List of counties in New Hampshire

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This is a list of New Hampshire counties:

New Hampshire counties

State Abbr.	FIPS State Code	State
NH	33	New Hampshire
	FIPS County Code	County Name	Formed	County Seat
		History
	001	Belknap County	1840	Laconia
		Formed from: Parts of Merrimack County and Strafford County. Named for: Jeremy Belknap, an early New Hampshire historian
	003	Carroll County	1840	Ossipee
		Formed from: towns removed from Strafford County. Named for: Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last surviving signer of the United States Declaration of Independence.
	005	Cheshire County	1769	Keene
		Original New Hampshire county. Named for the English county of Cheshire.
	007	Coos County	1803	Lancaster
		Formed from part of Grafton County. Named for: A Native American word meaning crooked, in reference to a bend in the Connecticut River.
	009	Grafton County	1769	Haverhill
		Original New Hampshire county. Named for Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, a Prime Minister of Great Britain
	011	Hillsborough County	1769	Nashua and Manchester
		Original New Hampshire county. Named for Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, known in America as the Earl of Hillsborough.
	013	Merrimack County	1823	Concord
		Formed from parts of Hillsborough County and Rockingham County. Named for the Merrimack River.
	015	Rockingham County	1769	Brentwood
		Original New Hampshire county. Named for Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, a two-time Prime Minister of Great Britain. Exeter was the county seat until 1997.
	017	Strafford County	1769	Dover
		Original New Hampshire county. Named for William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford.
	019	Sullivan County	1827	Newport
		Formed from part of Cheshire County. Named for John Sullivan, the third and fifth governor of New Hampshire

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New Hampshire Almanac: New Hampshire Counties

Lists of counties in the United States
(parishes in Louisiana; boroughs and census areas in Alaska)

	State of New Hampshire Concord (capital)
Topics	Constitution \| General Court \| Executive Council \| Governor \| Supreme Court
Regions	Dartmouth‑Lake Sunapee \| Great North Woods \| Lakes Region \| Merrimack Valley \| Monadnock \| Seacoast \| White Mountains
Counties	Belknap \| Carroll \| Cheshire \| Coos \| Grafton \| Hillsborough \| Merrimack \| Rockingham \| Strafford \| Sullivan
Cities	Berlin \| Claremont \| Concord \| Dover \| Franklin \| Keene \| Laconia \| Lebanon \| Manchester \| Nashua \| Portsmouth \| Rochester \| Somersworth
Towns	Acworth \| Albany \| Alexandria \| Allenstown \| Alstead \| Alton \| Amherst \| Andover \| Antrim \| Ashland \| Atkinson \| Auburn \| Barnstead \| Barrington \| Bartlett \| Bath \| Bedford \| Belmont \| Bennington \| Benton \| Bethlehem \| Boscawen \| Bow \| Bradford \| Brentwood \| Bridgewater \| Bristol \| Brookfield \| Brookline \| Campton \| Canaan \| Candia \| Canterbury \| Carroll \| Center Harbor \| Charlestown \| Chatham \| Chester \| Chesterfield \| Chichester \| Clarksville \| Colebrook \| Columbia \| Conway \| Cornish \| Croydon \| Dalton \| Danbury \| Danville \| Deerfield \| Deering \| Derry \| Dorchester \| Dublin \| Dummer \| Dunbarton \| Durham \| East Kingston \| Easton \| Eaton \| Effingham \| Ellsworth \| Enfield \| Epping \| Epsom \| Errol \| Exeter \| Farmington \| Fitzwilliam \| Francestown \| Franconia \| Freedom \| Fremont \| Gilford \| Gilmanton \| Gilsum \| Goffstown \| Gorham \| Goshen \| Grafton \| Grantham \| Greenfield \| Greenland \| Greenville \| Groton \| Hampstead \| Hampton \| Hampton Falls \| Hancock \| Hanover \| Harrisville \| Hart's Location \| Haverhill \| Hebron \| Henniker \| Hill \| Hillsborough \| Hinsdale \| Holderness \| Hollis \| Hooksett \| Hopkinton \| Hudson \| Jackson \| Jaffrey \| Jefferson \| Kensington \| Kingston \| Lancaster \| Landaff \| Langdon \| Lee \| Lempster \| Lincoln \| Lisbon \| Litchfield \| Littleton \| Londonderry \| Loudon \| Lyman \| Lyme \| Lyndeborough \| Madbury \| Madison \| Marlborough \| Marlow \| Mason \| Meredith \| Merrimack \| Middleton \| Milan \| Milford \| Milton \| Monroe \| Mont Vernon \| Moultonborough \| Nelson \| New Boston \| New Castle \| New Durham \| New Hampton \| New Ipswich \| New London \| Newbury \| Newfields \| Newington \| Newmarket \| Newport \| Newton \| North Hampton \| Northfield \| Northumberland \| Northwood \| Nottingham \| Orange \| Orford \| Ossipee \| Pelham \| Pembroke \| Peterborough \| Piermont \| Pittsburg \| Pittsfield \| Plainfield \| Plaistow \| Plymouth \| Randolph \| Raymond \| Richmond \| Rindge \| Rollinsford \| Roxbury \| Rumney \| Rye \| Salem \| Salisbury \| Sanbornton \| Sandown \| Sandwich \| Seabrook \| Sharon \| Shelburne \| South Hampton \| Springfield \| Stark \| Stewartstown \| Stoddard \| Strafford \| Stratford \| Stratham \| Sugar Hill \| Sullivan \| Sunapee \| Surry \| Sutton \| Swanzey \| Tamworth \| Temple \| Thornton \| Tilton \| Troy \| Tuftonboro \| Unity \| Wakefield \| Walpole \| Warner \| Warren \| Washington \| Waterville Valley \| Weare \| Webster \| Wentworth \| Westmoreland \| Whitefield \| Wilmot \| Wilton \| Winchester \| Windham \| Windsor \| Wolfeboro \| Woodstock
Unincorporated	Atkinson and Gilmanton Academy Grant \| Bean's Grant \| Bean's Purchase \| Cambridge \| Chandler's Purchase \| Crawford's Purchase \| Cutt's Grant \| Dix's Grant \| Dixville \| Erving's Location \| Green's Grant \| Hadley's Purchase \| Hale's Location \| Kilkenny \| Livermore \| Low and Burbank's Grant \| Martin's Location \| Millsfield \| Odell \| Pinkham's Grant \| Sargent's Purchase \| Second College Grant \| Success \| Thompson and Meserve's Purchase \| Wentworth's Location