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:
“He had a broad face and a little round belly,
That shook, when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly.
He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,”
—Clement Clarke Moore (1779–1863)
“It would astonish if not amuse, the older citizens of your County who twelve years ago knew me a stranger, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working on a flat boat—at ten dollars per month to learn that I have been put down here as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)