Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809, the second child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Lincoln ( née Hanks ), in a one-room log cabin on the Sinking Spring Farm in Hardin County, Kentucky ( now LaRue County ).

In 1830, fearing a milk sickness outbreak along the Ohio River, the Lincoln family moved west, where they settled on public land in Macon County, Illinois, another free, non-slave state.

Canoeing down the Sangamon River, Lincoln ended up in the village of New Salem in Sangamon County.

* 1881 – Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.

* 1878 – John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.

In 1851 John went to an academy at Pittsfield in Pike County, where he met an older student, John G. Nicolay, with whom he would later work as private secretary to Abraham Lincoln.

* King, Lincoln County, Wisconsin

* Lincoln, California, in Placer County

* Lincoln, Madera County, California

* Lincoln, Adams County, Wisconsin, a town

* Lincoln, Bayfield County, Wisconsin, a town

* Lincoln, Buffalo County, Wisconsin, a town

* Lincoln, Burnett County, Wisconsin, a town

* Lincoln, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, a town

* Lincoln, Forest County, Wisconsin, a town

* Lincoln, Kewaunee County, Wisconsin, a town

Other names seen on old maps include Caterlaugh or Caterlagh, archaic designations of County Carlow, in the days before much of the north of that county was taken into Wicklow in the early 17th century.

Speaking of his early life and education, he commented " I learned that my local County Derry experience, which I had considered archaic and irrelevant to ' the modern world ' was to be trusted.

Drăgăşani (, archaic English: Dragashan ) is a city in Vâlcea County, Romania, near the right bank of the Olt river, and on the railway between Caracal and Râmnicu Vâlcea.

Bistrița (;, archaic Nösen ; ) is the capital city of Bistriţa-Năsăud County, Transylvania, Romania.

Poreč (; Latin: Parens or Parentium ; archaic German: Parenz ; Ancient Greek: Παρενθος, Pàrenthos ) is a town and municipality on the western coast of the Istrian peninsula, in Istria County, Croatia.

* The archaic term " County of Lincoln " refers to Lincolnshire in modern usage

Until 1890, the concept of an unofficial championship existed whereby various claims would be made by or on behalf of a particular club as the " Champion County ", an archaic term which now has the specific meaning of an unofficial claimant for the County Championship title prior to 1890.

In Ireland's County Limerick, near the River Shannon, there is a quiet little suburb by the name of Garryowen, which means `` Garden of Owen ''.

On 25 May 1824, the town plat was registered with Wayne County as " Annsarbour "; this represents the earliest known use of the town's name.

LDS Apostle Orson Pratt declared that " Ahman ", part of the name of the settlement " Adam-ondi-Ahman " in Daviess County, Missouri, was the name of God in the Adamic language.

He married secondly at Çubuklu, Bosphorus, on 1 March 1910 and divorced in 1913 Hungarian Noblewoman Marianne Török de Szendrö, who took the name Zübeyde Cavidan Hanım ( Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, 8 January 1874-aft.

* Aga, the Hungarian name for Brestovăţ Commune, Timiş County, Romania

During this period, the band teamed up with producer Mark Cunningham on the first-ever BBC Children In Need single, a cover of David Bowie's " Heroes ", released in 1986 under the name of The County Line.

The name " Quinte " is derived from " Kente ", which was the name of an early French Catholic mission located on the south shore of what is now Prince Edward County.

Glasheennabaultina (' the Bealtaine stream ') is the name of a stream joining the River Galey near Athea, County Limerick.

* Bihar, the Hungarian name for Biharia Commune, Bihor County, Romania

* ColumBus, former name of Howard Transit in Howard County, Maryland

Per agreement with the city and Miami-Dade County ( which owns the park ), the Marlins officially changed their name to the " Miami Marlins " on November 11, 2011.

In Ireland, usage of the word county nearly always comes before rather than after the county name ; thus " County Clare " in Ireland as opposed to " Clare County " in Michigan, US.

A further exception occurs in the case of those counties created after 1994 which often drop the word county entirely, or use it after the name ; thus for example internet search engines show many more uses ( on Irish sites ) of " Fingal " than of either " County Fingal " or " Fingal County ".

On September 20, 2011, the County Board of Arlington County, Virginia voted to change the name of " Old Jefferson Davis Highway " ( the original route of the road in the County ) after the chairman of the Board, Chris Zimmerman, who was originally from the Northeast, stated: " I have a problem with ' Jefferson Davis ' ...

Lugh instituted an event similar to the Olympic games called the Assembly of Talti which finished on Lughnasadh ( 1 August ) in memory of his foster-mother, Tailtiu, at the town that bears her name ( now Teltown, County Meath ).

He appears in folklore as a trickster, and in County Mayo thunderstorms were referred to as battles between Lugh and Balor, so he is sometimes considered a storm god: Alexei Kondratiev notes his epithet lonnbeimnech (" fierce striker ") and concludes that " if his name has any relation to ' light ' it more properly means ' lightning-flash ' ( as in Breton luc ' h and Cornish lughes )".

In 1995, the company, operating under the name GMT Microelectronics ( Great Mixed-signal Technologies ), reopened MOS Technologies ' original, circa-1970 one-micrometre fab in Norristown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania that Commodore had closed in 1992.

* Pipe, the Hungarian name for Pipea village, Nadeş Commune, Mureş County, Romania