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The five 'counties of Hawaii' on the Hawaiian Islands enjoy somewhat greater status than many counties on the United States mainland. Counties in Hawaii are the only legally constituted government bodies below that of the state. No formal level of government (such as city governments) exists below that of the county in Hawaii. Because education is carried out by the Hawaii State Department of Education (and not a function controlled by local school boards like the other 49 states),^[1] property taxes and user fees collected by the counties support mostly road maintenance, community activities, parks (including life guards at beach parks), garbage collection, police (contrary to the television series ''Hawaii Five-O'', there is no state police force), ambulance, and fire suppression services.^[2] All the counties were created in 1905 from unorganised territory, seven years after the Territory of Hawaii was created.^[3] The county of Kalawao is used exclusively as a leper colony, and does not have many of the elected officals the other counties do.

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County information

References

County information

The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code, which is used by the United States government to uniquely identify counties, is provided with each entry. The FIPS code for each county links to census data for that county.

County

FIPS Code[4]

County Seat [5]

Etymology

Population (2000) [6]

Area

Map

References

1. Hawai'i DOE, About Hawaii State Department of Education
2. Hawaii State: Facts & Figures - Des Osman Realty
3. Foreword Office of the County Clerk
4. EPA County FIPS Code Listing
5. NACo - Find a county National Association of Counties
6. Hawaii QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau