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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“The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935)
“A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“We become male automatically because of the Y chromosome and the little magic peanut, but if we are to become men we need the help of other men—we need our fathers to model for us and then to anoint us, we need our buddies to share the coming-of-age rituals with us and to let us join the team of men, and we need myths of heroes to inspire us and to show us the way.”
—Frank Pittman (20th century)
“We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority ... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote against. Some we quote not at all, offering them our scrupulous avoidance, and so make them part of our “white mythology.” Other authors we constantly invoke, chanting their names in cerebral rituals of propitiation or ancestor worship.”
—Ihab Hassan (b. 1925)
“The city of Washington is in some respects self-contained, and it is easy there to forget what the rest of the United States is thinking about. I count it a fortunate circumstance that almost all the windows of the White House and its offices open upon unoccupied spaces that stretch to the banks of the Potomac ... and that as I sit there I can constantly forget Washington and remember the United States.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)