Newton County is the name of several counties in the United States: All except for Arkansas and maybe Mississippi are named for Sgt. John Newton.
Bold Name indicates county sharing boundary with a Jasper County. Five states have paired their two counties because of their namesake's common history.
- Newton County, Arkansas
- Newton County, Georgia
- Newton County, Indiana
- Newton County, Mississippi
- Newton County, Missouri
- Newton County, Texas
Famous quotes containing the words newton and/or county:
“Where the statue stood
Of Newton with his prism and silent face,
The marble index of a mind for ever
Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“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)