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Between the 1990 and 2000 censuses, the following counties (all but one of which are in the West) gained sufficient population to lose frontier status. Together, these counties cover an area approximately the size of the state of Georgia.
| Arizona | Apache, Coconino, Graham |
| Colorado | Archuleta, Conejos, Crowley, Elbert, Grand, Ouray, Park, Routt |
| Georgia | Echols |
| Idaho | Blaine, Fremont, Washington |
| Montana | Jefferson |
| New Mexico | Rio Arriba, San Miguel |
| Oregon | Crook |
The following counties (all of which lie east of the Continental Divide) lost sufficient population to gain frontier status. Their total area is approximately 68,000 square miles.
| Kansas | Edwards |
| Michigan | Ontonagon |
| Minnesota | Marshall |
| Montana | Hill |
| Nebraska | Sherman |
| North Dakota | Foster |
| Texas | Hansford, Reeves, Wheeler |
Between the 1990 census and the 2000 census the net reduction in the area designated as frontier was 4%.
Nearly 40% of the USA, 400 counties with a total population of 4.7 million and a total area of 1.4 million square miles, remains frontier. More than 27% of the contiguous states is frontier. In the industrialised world this figure is only exceeded by Australia and Canada.
Most of the frontier counties are located from the western Great Plains to the Sierra Nevadas and Cascades.
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