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Location of counties with the five most popular names. This is a list of U.S. county names that are used in two or more states. Ranked are the 428 most common county names, which are shared by counties in two or more states each, accounting for 1,730 of the 3,140 counties and county-equivalents in the United States.
Every county's object in this SVG has its FIPS code in the object id field, with the county name and 2-letter postal state abbreviation in the title field. In cases where there is a county in a state that also has a county-equivalent city of the same name, "Co." is appended to the county name.
N= is the two-digit FIPS state code of the county's state, e.g. N=04 for Arizona, N=10 for Delaware, etc. The name of the state will be composed from this number. Num= is the three-digit fips county code for that county, e.g. N=001 or N=037 etc. Seat= is the county seat. The state's name is included automatically in the wikilink.
These are lists of U.S. county name etymologies.Many U.S. states have counties named after U.S. presidents such as Washington, Madison, Polk, Jefferson, etc. Counties are also commonly named after famous individuals, local Native American tribes once in the area (Washoe County, Nevada), cities located within the county, and land or water features (Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, meaning "Fat Hill ...
Union County, North Carolina: Named as a compromise between Whigs, who wanted to name the new county after Henry Clay, and Democrats, who wanted to name it after Andrew Jackson. [3] [4] Union County, Ohio: Named because it is a union of portions of Delaware, Franklin, Logan, and Madison counties. Union County, Oregon; Union County, Pennsylvania
The following is a list of the 3,143 counties and county-equivalents in the 50 states and District of Columbia sorted by U.S. state, plus an additional 100 county-equivalents in the U.S. territories sorted by territory.
Barbour County: 01007 Bibb County: 01009 Blount County: 01011 Bullock County: 01013 Butler County: 01015 Calhoun County: 01017 Chambers County: 01019 Cherokee County: 01021 Chilton County: 01023 Choctaw County: 01025 Clarke County: 01027 Clay County: 01029 Cleburne County: 01031 Coffee County: 01033 Colbert County: 01035 Conecuh County: 01037 ...
The name was later shortened. [10] Treutlen County: Georgia: Named for John A. Treutlen, Georgia's first state governor following adoption of the state Constitution of 1777. Trigg County: Kentucky: Named for Stephen Trigg, a frontier officer in the American Revolutionary War who died in the Battle of Blue Licks. Trimble County: Kentucky