Stark County

Stark County is the name of three US counties:

  • Stark County, Illinois
  • Stark County, North Dakota
  • Stark County, Ohio
  • Starke County, Indiana, although spelled slightly differently, is also named for Revolutionary War General John Stark, the same origin as Stark County in other states.

Famous quotes containing the words stark and/or county:

    “During a walk or in a book or in the middle of an embrace, suddenly I awake to a stark amazement at everything. The bare fact of existence paralyzes me... To be alive is so incredible that all I can do is to lie still and merely breathe—like an infant on its back in a cot. It is impossible to be interested in anything in particular while overhead the sun shines or underneath my feet grows a single blade of grass.”
    —W.N.P. Barbellion (1889–1919)

    “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)