Clay County is the name of 18 counties in the United States. Most are named for Henry Clay, U.S. Senator and statesman:
- Clay County, Alabama
- Clay County, Arkansas (named for John Clayton, and originally named Clayton County)
- Clay County, Florida
- Clay County, Georgia
- Clay County, Illinois
- Clay County, Indiana
- Clay County, Iowa (named for Henry Clay, Jr., son of Henry Clay and a soldier in the Mexican-American War)
- Clay County, Kansas
- Clay County, Kentucky (named for Green Clay, cousin of Henry Clay, a member of the Kentucky state legislature)
- Clay County, Minnesota
- Clay County, Mississippi
- Clay County, Missouri
- Clay County, Nebraska
- Clay County, North Carolina
- Clay County, South Dakota
- Clay County, Tennessee
- Clay County, Texas
- Clay County, West Virginia
Famous quotes containing the words clay and/or county:
“Protoplasm, simple or nucleated, is the formal basis of all life. It is the clay of the potter: which, bake it and paint it as he will, remains clay, separated by artifice, and not by nature from the commonest brick or sun-dried clod.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)
“I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name,—if ten honest men only,—ay, if one HONEST man, in this State of Massachusetts, ceasing to hold slaves, were actually to withdraw from this copartnership, and be locked up in the county jail therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America. For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)