Pike County

Pike County is the name of ten counties in the United States:

  • Pike County, Alabama
  • Pike County, Arkansas
  • Pike County, Georgia
  • Pike County, Illinois
  • Pike County, Indiana
  • Pike County, Kentucky
  • Pike County, Mississippi
  • Pike County, Missouri
  • Pike County, Ohio
  • Pike County, Pennsylvania

All were named to honor Zebulon Pike.

Famous quotes containing the words pike and/or county:

    “Did you ever hear tell of Sweet Betsy from Pike.
    Who crossed the wide mountains with her lover Ike,”
    —Unknown. Sweet Betsey from Pike (l. 1–2)

    “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)