Most of the county's borders are defined by water.

There are three cities within the county's borders: Newburgh, on the Hudson River ; Port Jervis, on the Delaware River ; and Middletown, halfway between the other two.

The Havasupai Reservation is the only one that lies entirely within the county's borders.

By 1800, the county's current borders were set.

* The Wisconsin River borders the county's southern edge.

This population figure excludes those residing in the independent cities of Buena Vista ( 6, 650 ) and Lexington ( 7, 042 ), both enclaved within the county's geographical borders.

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.

The county's borders have been changed only once, in 1891, when the Legislative Assembly moved the county line farther south into Wasco County.

The Yadkin River forms the county's northern and eastern borders.

He used his influence as Chairman to create the Blue Ridge Parkway, which runs along the county's eastern and southern borders.

* A substantial portion of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore lies within the county's borders, including North Manitou and South Manitou Islands.

The county's borders were altered in 1829 to form Hancock County, in 1830 to absorb a small area surrounding Whitesville, in 1854 to cede land to McLean County, and in 1860 to annex from Henderson County.

Soldier Township was organized following the change in the county's borders in 1860, and it contained all of the county north of the Kansas River until the formation of Silver Lake Township in 1868.

The Nez Perce National Forest is located entirely within the county's borders, and is the largest National Forest lying within a single county.

Its borders also run in a zig zag pattern to the south on Buffalo Road South of the NYS Thruway with the county's border with the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation.

Parts of four constituencies for elections to Dáil Éireann are contained within the county's borders.

The county's borders corresponded largely to those of the modern administrative district ( Landkreis ) of Grafschaft Bentheim.

Usually, if there is a conflict between a county ordinance and a municipal ordinance, the municipal ordinance has precedence within the municipality's borders ; however, the overlaying county's ordinances have precedence if the overlaying county has been designated a charter county by the Florida Legislature.

The gold rope which borders the seal represents the county's bond to the sea and its geographic location between the Atlantic Ocean and the Chesapeake Bay.

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.

The county's Moscow area became the exiled home of French royalty during the early 1800s, including the exiled King of France Louis-Philippe in 1815, and Marquis de Lafayette in 1825.

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.