This is a list of U.S. counties that share names with U.S. states. Sixty of the country's 3,086 counties share names with U.S. states. Of these, seven—highlighted in bold on the list—share names with their own states.
Read more about List Of U.S. Counties That Share Names With U.S. States: Arkansas (1), Colorado (1), Delaware (6), Hawaii (1), Idaho (1), Indiana (1), Iowa (2), Mississippi (2), Nevada (2), New York (1), Ohio (3), Oklahoma (1), Oregon (1), Texas (2), Utah (1), Virginia (1), Washington (31), Wyoming (3), Borderline Cases
Famous quotes containing the words list of, list, share, names and/or states:
“Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior F.B.I.- men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep- hole and missing laundry list school.... Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“[Urging the national government] to eradicate local prejudices and mistaken rivalships to consolidate the affairs of the states into one harmonious interest.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)