Hamilton County is the name of ten counties in the United States of America, eight of them named for Alexander Hamilton, first United States Secretary of the Treasury:
- Hamilton County, Florida
- Hamilton County, Illinois
- Hamilton County, Indiana
- Hamilton County, Iowa (named for William W. Hamilton, president of the Iowa state senate)
- Hamilton County, Kansas
- Hamilton County, Nebraska
- Hamilton County, New York, the least populous county on the list, most sparsely populated county in the eastern half of the United States
- Hamilton County, Ohio, the most populous county on the list
- Hamilton County, Tennessee
- Hamilton County, Texas (named for James Hamilton Jr., Governor of South Carolina from 1830 to 1832)
Famous quotes containing the words hamilton and/or county:
““Last night there was four Maries,
The night there’ll be but three;
There was Marie Seton, and Marie Beton,
And Marie Carmichael, and me.””
—Unknown. Mary Hamilton (l. 69–72)
“Hold hard, my county darlings, for a hawk descends,
Golden Glamorgan straightens, to the falling birds.
Your sport is summer as the spring runs angrily.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)