Grafton County is a rural county and is the second largest county geographically, in the west central portion of New Hampshire with 1747 square miles or 1.1 million acres of which 90 percent of it is timberland. Grafton County covers nearly one-fifth of the state. The county seat of Grafton County, New Hampshire, is North Haverhill. It shares 89 miles of the Connecticut River with Vermont and borders Coos County to the north, Carroll County to the east, and Sullivan County, Merrimack County and Belknap County to the south.
The county population on July 1, 1999, was 78,570, an increase of 3,641 over the 1990 census.
Grafton was one of the five original counties and, until 1803, contained all the area now known as Grafton and Coos counties. Augustus Henry Fitzroy, the Duke of Grafton, gave the county its name.
For information on county government, contact the National Association of Counties Web site.
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