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
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“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)
“Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her hand whether or not I was for shock treatment, the new and fashionable means of quieting people and of making them realize that orders are to be obeyed and floors are to be polished without anyone protesting and faces are to be made to be fixed into smiles and weeping is a crime.”
—Janet Frame (b. 1924)
“The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)
“A knowledge that people live close by is,
I think, enough. And even if only first names are ever exchanged
The people who own them seem rock-true and marvelously self-sufficient.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“An ... important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)