This site was chosen to accommodate the county's growing population, complement the growth of nearby UCLA and UC Riverside, and allow for the construction of a master planned community in the surrounding area.

Much of the county is seen as being a bastion of Gaelic culture and the Irish language, the county holding the second-largest Gaeltacht area in the country with a population of 24, 744 16 % of the county's population lives in the Gaeltacht.

Cork consists of approximately 74, 000 hectares of peatlands which amounts to 9. 8 % of the county's total land area.

The area that drains into the Conewango Creek ( including Chautauqua Lake ) eventually empties into the Gulf of Mexico ; the rest of the county's watershed empties into Lake Erie and out into the North Atlantic Ocean.

Mountains rim the area, some of which harbor beautiful forests, contrasting with the deserts below, especially the Pahvant Mountains, which form the county's eastern boundary.

The county's unincorporated area approximately, or more than 84 percent of the total land area.

The majority of the county's population resides in the Waterloo-Cedar Falls urbanized area.

A California Department of Forestry report lists the county's area in acres as 663, 000, although the exact figure would be.

* Public land: about 75 % of the county's area is publicly owned, including

:* Federal ownership: about 50 % of the county's area is owned by the Federal government of the United States, including

::* National Forest lands, managed by the US Forest Service: 38 % of the county's area

::* Federal lands managed by the U. S. Bureau of Land Management: 11. 6 % of the county's area

::* Small areas of Federal land are managed by the U. S. Bureau of Indian Affairs and the National Park Service: less than 0. 5 % of the county's area.

The Yakama Indian Reservation, the 15th largest reservation in America, covers 1, 573 mi² ( 4, 074 km² ), comprising 36 % of the county's total area.

The Town of Urbanna remains the county's largest commercial center and its only incorporated area but the county seat of government has moved to the Village of Saluda on U. S. Route 17.

The county's area code is ' 804 '.

The Chickahominy River ( pronounced chick-a-hom-a-nee ) which forms much of the county's eastern and northern borders, is named after the historic Native American people whom English colonists encountered in this area.

After Clifton Forge rejoined the county in 2001, the county's total area increased to.

The stimulus of World War II demand and, particularly, the development of large-scale irrigation in the area, led to the revival of the county's economy.

The county's area was reduced in 1846, following the establishment of Panola and Upshur Counties.

The county's area is larger than the area of Connecticut, Delaware, and Rhode Island individually, and larger than the combined area of Delaware and Rhode Island.

The county's original geographic area included all of what are now White and Warren Counties, as well as parts of modern Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb, Franklin, Grundy, Putnam, and Van Buren counties.

Thus the possibility of re-incorporating Portugal ( up to then Southern Galicia ) into a Kingdom of Portugal and Galicia as before was eliminated and Afonso became sole ruler ( Duke of Portugal ) after demands for independence from the county's church and nobles.

Most of the county's territory became part of an independent Belgium in 1830, and during the 19th and 20th centuries, it became increasingly commonplace to refer to the entire Dutch-speaking and northern part of Belgium as " Flanders ", including the Belgian parts of the Duchy of Brabant and Limburg.

Part of what became the Black Belt of Georgia, prior to the American Civil War the county's chief commodity crop was cotton, cultivated and processed by African-American slaves.

Paul finally became sheriff in April 1881, but it was too late to reappoint Wyatt Earp as deputy sheriff because on January 1, 1881, the eastern portion of Pima County containing Tombstone had been split off into the new Cochise County, which would need its own sheriff, based in the county's largest city, Tombstone.

The county's name was changed to Orange County in 1845 when Florida became a state, and over the next 70 years several other counties were created.

Taylor soon became one of the county's leading citizens, representing Lunenburg in the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1765 until 1768.

Closner became sheriff in 1890 and shortly afterward, under the protection of James B. Wellsqv, became the county's political boss.

In 1850 the half of the county's remaining territory south of the Yadkin River became Yadkin County.

The county's former courthouse in St. Louis city became city property.

Dennis Pennington, who lived near Lanesville, became one of the county's early leading citizens and speaker of the territory's legislature.

File: Tazewell County Illinois 1831. png | Tazewell County between 1831 and 1841: the last of the county's additional territory became part of LaSalle County.

During the 1980s and 1990s and demographic shifts, Evans gradually became the de facto county seat, as the Columbia County Government Center and the Government Complex Addition were built there to serve the growing population in the county's eastern areas.

Wallingford became the chief town of Berkshire and the seat of the county's Ealdorman.

In 1951, oil ( which had first been discovered in 1919 ) became the county's third commodity.

In 1770, Amherst became the county seat of Hillsborough County, due largely to its location on the county's major east-west road.

It became the county's first political subdivision in 1685.

The area covered by the present-day township was set off to Morris County upon that county's creation in 1739, and became part of the newly formed Sussex County in 1753.

Samuel F. Jones became one of the county's first judges and in 1811, when a postal route went into operation from Newburgh to Ithaca, New York, Samuel became Monticello's first postmaster.

Green Township became part of Summit County, Ohio after that county's establishment in 1840.

In the years after World War II, timber became an increasingly large part of the county's finances.

Because this decreased the county's potential tax base, the government shared money earned from timber sales with the county, and payments in lieu of taxes from the federal government became a large part of its tax base.