Clarke County

Clarke County may refer to:

Places
  • One of five counties in the United States:
    • Clarke County, Alabama
    • Clarke County, Georgia
    • Clarke County, Iowa
    • Clarke County, Mississippi
    • Clarke County, Virginia
  • Clarke County, New South Wales, in Australia

Clarke County was also the official name of Clark County, Washington from 1849 until 1925, when the spelling was changed.

Ships
  • USS Clarke County (LST-601), a United States Navy tank landing ship in commission as USS LST-601 from 1944 to 1955 and as USS Clarke County in 1955 and during the late 1960s

Famous quotes containing the words clarke and/or county:

    Burn Ovid with the rest. Lovers will find
    A hedge-school for themselves and learn by heart
    All that the clergy banish from the mind,
    —Austin Clarke (1896–1974)

    I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I’d bet I wouldn’t lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.
    Berkeley Breathed (b. 1957)