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Petit Jean ("Little John" named after a French sailor on the Arkansas River) Pollard; Prairie County ("prairie, meadow") Saline County [35] Sans Souci (literally without concern) Segur (French city) Sevier County; Smackover (Anglicization of chemin couvert, "covered way") [34] Soudan; St. Francis County; Terre Noire (black earth) [35] Terre ...
The Mitchell Map. The Mitchell Map is a map made by John Mitchell (1711–1768), which was reprinted several times during the second half of the 18th century. The map, formally titled A map of the British and French dominions in North America &c., was used as a primary map source during the Treaty of Paris for defining the boundaries of the newly independent United States.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Halifax County, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map. [1]
French Polynesia (designated as an "overseas country", French: pays d'outre-mer) is divided into 5 administrative subdivisions (subdivisions administratives). For elections, it is divided into six electoral districts (circonscriptions électorales), which differ slightly from the 5 administrative subdivisions. The 5 administrative subdivisions ...
Ingram, Virginia; Larkin Branch (Hyco River tributary) Liberty, Halifax County, Virginia; List of census-designated places in Virginia; List of cities and counties in Virginia; Mayo Creek (Hyco River tributary) Midway (near Scottsburg), Halifax County, Virginia; Morris Branch (Hyco River tributary) Mountain Road, Virginia; Nathalie, Virginia
While special districts exist in Virginia, they are generally less important than in other states. As of June 2012, Virginia had 193 special-district governments, as well as numerous special agencies, areas, and districts that were subordinate to the state or to a county, city, or town government.
In continental France (metropolitan France, excluding Corsica), the median land area of a department is 5,965 km 2 (2,303 sq mi), which is two-and-a-half times the median land area of the ceremonial counties of England and the preserved counties of Wales and slightly more than three-and-half times the median land area of a county of the United ...
The Piedmont region of Virginia is a part of the greater Piedmont physiographic region which stretches from the falls of the Potomac, Rappahannock, and James Rivers to the Blue Ridge Mountains. The region runs across the middle of the state from north to south, expanding outward to a width of nearly 190 miles at the border with North Carolina .