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The county seat, Bryson City developed along both sides of the Tuckaseegee, and Bryson City Island Park was developed. The river next enters Fontana Lake , formed by the Fontana Dam upriver on the Little Tennessee River.
The entire stretch of the Cosumnes River between the confluence of the forks and a point one mile (1.6 km) above Michigan Bar define the El Dorado/Amador County line; below this point, the river flows into southern Sacramento County. [8] The Cosumnes flows west through Rancho Murieta, an affluent outer suburb of the Sacramento metropolitan area ...
Many Ocean County residents commonly refer to all of Lacey Township as Forked River. The first word is pronounced by locals with two syllables (/ ˈ f ɔːr k ɪ d /). Pronouncing the first word with one syllable (/ f ɔːr k t /) is a sign of a new resident or outsider. [15] [7]
Forks, also previously known as the unincorporated town of Quillayute, is a city in southwest Clallam County, Washington, United States. The population was 3,335 at the 2020 census . [ 4 ] It is named after the forks in the nearby Bogachiel , Calawah , and Sol Duc rivers which join to form the Quillayute River .
The county recorder normally maintains the official record of all real estate transactions. Other key county officials include the coroner/medical examiner, treasurer, assessor, auditor, comptroller, and district attorney. In most states, the county sheriff is the chief law enforcement officer in the county.
Many originally French place names, possibly hundreds, in the Midwest and Upper West were replaced with directly translated English names once American settlers became locally dominant (e.g. "La Petite Roche" became Little Rock; "Baie Verte" became Green Bay; "Grandes Fourches" became Grand Forks).
Grand Forks County: 035: Grand Forks: 1873: Named for Grand Forks, North Dakota, which in turn was named for its location at the intersection of the Red Lake River and the Red River of the North: 72,708: 1,438 sq mi (3,724 km 2) Grant County: 037: Carson: 1916: Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885), eighteenth U.S. President 2,215: 1,660 sq mi (4,299 ...
It washed out five bridges in Lane County in December 1942, [123] caused seven deaths in Portland and evacuations in Eugene in January 1943, [124] [125] flooded Corvallis in November 1946, [126] contributed to the destruction of Vanport City and the death of about 15 of its residents in May 1948, [127] [128] and nearly flooded parts of Salem in ...