* Harney County, Oregon-( east )

Harney County is a county located in the U. S. state of Oregon.

Harney County is Oregon's largest county in area.

Harney County was carved out of the southern two-thirds of Grant County on February 25, 1889.

Facilitated on the national level by the Carey act of 1894, arid land in Harney County was donated to the state for irrigation and settlement, but all water development efforts failed.

Like all counties in eastern Oregon, the majority of registered voters who are part of a political party in Harney County are members of the Republican Party.

In the 2008 presidential election 70. 45 % of Harney County voters voted for Republican John McCain, while 25. 79 % voted for Democrat Barack Obama and 3. 73 % of voters either voted for a Third Party candidate or wrote in a candidate.

Sign welcoming drivers to Harney County

Approximately 75 % of the population of Harney County lives in the Burns-Hines municipal district.

Crane is the only other localised population center, with less than 7 % of the population of Harney County.

The remaining population of Harney County is dispersed throughout the countryside, mostly dwelling on large ranches.

* National Register of Historic Places listings in Harney County, Oregon

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In 1889, more than half of the southern part of the original Grant County was taken to form Harney County.

The southern part of Grant County includes the northern-most reaches of the Great Basin, including the Silvies River watershed, which flows south into Harney Lake in the High Desert of Eastern Oregon.

Harney is the largest county in Oregon and the ninth largest county in the United States ( excluding boroughs and census areas in Alaska ).

In descending order of land area the forest is located in parts of Grant, Harney, Baker, and Malheur counties.

Great Basin watersheds that share a border with the Columbia watershed include Harney Basin, Humboldt River, and Great Salt Lake.

Tánaiste Mary Harney said no deal had been done with Sinn Féin or the IRA over the three's return to Ireland adding that the Irish government would consider any request from the Colombian authorities for their extradition.

" In 1897, explorer Hugh Willoughby spent eight days canoeing with a party from the mouth of the Harney River to the Miami River.

A fierce political battle, with armed " night riders " who spirited county records from Harney to Burns, ended with Burns as the county seat in 1890.

Several Chartist leaders, including Feargus O ' Connor, George Julian Harney, and Thomas Cooper were arrested, along with nearly 1, 500 others.

In the years that followed 1994, Shundahai Network in cooperation with Nevada Desert Experience and Corbin Harney continued the protests of the government's continued nuclear weapons work and also staged efforts to stop a repository for highly radioactive waste adjacent to the test site at Yucca Mountain, northwest of Las Vegas.

O ' Malley joined with Fianna Fáil members Mary Harney, Bobby Molloy and Pearse Wyse, Fine Gael TD Michael Keating and former Fine Gael activist Michael McDowell, to set up the new party.

Mary Harney became the new leader after a bitter election contest with Pat Cox, who later left the party.

Harney served as Tánaiste ( deputy prime minister ) from May 1997 until September 2006 after a return to government with Fianna Fáil.

The party's two remaining TDs, Mary Harney and Noel Grealish, entered into coalition government with Fianna Fáil and the Green Party in the 30th Dáil.

Ben Harney )-Marguerite Newton on Edison Records-Len Spencer with Vess L. Ossman on Columbia Records

Very coarse grained pegmatite is associated with the granite of Harney Peak.

In the past some have claimed that Harney was African-American and early in his career he is said to have played with African American theater troupes.

All photographic and contemporary accounts show that Harney was light skinned with red hair.

Harney, this being is called Utdjungon and only adherence to the tribal law by surviving tribe members could prevent him from destroying the world with a fiery star.

Harney went on to become a founder-member of the Progressive Democrats with Desmond O ' Malley and Bobby Molloy in December 1985.

Harney was appointed Minister of State with responsibility for Environmental Protection.

Following the 2002 general election Harney led the Progressive Democrats, who had doubled their seats from four to eight, back into coalition with Fianna Fáil, the first time a government had been re-elected since 1969.

Harney was attacked with red paint on 1 November 2010 as she turned the sod on a new health centre beside the Cherry Orchard Hospital in Ballyfermot.

Harney retired with a package worth more than € 300, 000 and is entitled to an annual pension of over € 120, 000.

In September 2004, Martin did a straight swap with Mary Harney, to become Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment.

The Legislative Council of Florida presented Harney with a commendation and a sword, and Harney was soon given command of the Second Dragoons.