Aroostook County Quick Facts

• Aroostook County Population: 67,959 - US Census Bureau Data 2010.
• Population is 5.4% of the State's total population.
• Originally part of Washington and Penobscot Counties.
• Aroostook is named for an Indian word meaning "beautiful river".
• Incorporated March 16, 1839.
• Contains 2 cities, 55 towns, 11 plantations, and 110 unorganized townships.
• Density is 11.1 persons per square mile.
• Area - 6,672 square miles (21.6% of the state's area): 89% of the County's area is forest, 1% lakes, ponds and rivers, 10% cultivated farmland.
• Houlton is the Aroostook County seat, with offices in Caribou and Fort Kent.
• Maine's northernmost county bordered to the east, west and north by Canada.
• Aroostook County is larger than Connecticut and Rhode Island combined.
• Major crops: broccoli, potatoes, hay, small grain rotation crops.
• Site of two transatlantic balloon crossing launch sites.
• Aroostook County is home to the Allagash Wilderness Waterway.

 

Cultural and Historical Video about Aroostook County