Stanislaus County has historically been divided socially and economically by the north-flowing San Joaquin River, which provided a natural barrier to trade and travel for much of the county's history.

" In 1940, the first oil wells were sunk in the county's Willamar Oil Field ; today oil production is a major part of the local economy, although increasingly eclipsed by natural gas.

The county's largest natural water supply is the Cullasaja River.

Timber and coal mining have been the two most natural resources that brought jobs and grew the county's economy.

While natural gas was found throughout Blackford County, crude oil was found mostly in the county's Harrison Township ( somewhat between Montpelier and Mollie ).

Because St. Cuthbert is the patron saint of Northumberland, it was natural that the eider should be chosen as the county's emblem bird ; the birds are still often called Cuddy's ducks in the area, " Cuddy " being the familiar form of " Cuthbert ".

Some of his interim observations on the county's natural history were read to the Royal Society in 1668 and 1675-6.

As the county's many known archaeological sites attest, the resources of Davidson County had attracted Native Americans for centuries.

NCSU Tyrrell County Center gives the county's residents easy access to the resources and expertise of NC State University and NC A & T State University.

Others would say he was directly responsible for the huge influence the coal companies had over the county's vast coal resources and ultimately the reason that the region remains, to this day, so economically depressed.

In the 1880s the Llano Rural, the town's first newspaper, was established, followed by the Iron City News, the name of which reflects growing interest in the county's mineral resources.

Because the county's mineral resources, with the significant exception of granite, did not exist in commercially exploitable concentrations, the boom period soon faded.

Most of the county's residents live in unincorporated locales, the most populous of which are Silver Spring, Germantown and Bethesda, though the incorporated cities of Rockville and Gaithersburg are also large population centers.

Among the county's major employers are the Social Security Administration, which has its national headquarters in Woodlawn, and Black & Decker in Towson.

Of the 410, 100 persons in the county's workforce as of 2009, 25 % are employed in the fields of education, health, and human services, and 10 % in retailing, with less than 1 % in agriculture.

The graduation rate from this school district is an above-average 92 %, and the county's schools are ranked among the best in the state.

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

Representative of the work are one county's accomplishments in less than five months, from November 1933 to March 1934.

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 highest elevations are in the north and northwest of the county, reaching 805 ft. near the Pennsylvania border in the county's northwestern corner.

Central Sanpete is dominated by the Sanpete Valley ( sometimes known as the Sanpitch Valley ), where most of the county's cities are located.

The county's public schools are operated by the District School Board of Collier County.

Eastpoint, Florida and Apalachicola are the county's most populous cities, both with about 2, 300 residents.

Located in southwest Florida, the principal cities in the county are Fort Myers ( the county seat ) and Cape Coral ( the county's most populous municipality ).

The regional council provides various services on a regional basis, and a majority of the county's towns are members of the Franklin County Solid Waste Management District, which provides municipal waste disposal and recycling services to its members.

There are elected officials who maintain offices in the Bessemer annex, such as the county's Assistant Tax Collector, the Assistant Tax Assessor, and the Assistant District Attorney.

There are also a number of uninhabited islands in the county's section of Lough Neagh: Coney Island, Coney Island Flat, Croaghan Flat, Derrywarragh Island, Padian, Phil Roe's Flat and the Shallow Flat.

Six of the county's nine cities, from Healdsburg south through Santa Rosa to Rohnert Park and Cotati, are in the Santa Rosa Plain.

Due to its remote location in an isolated part of the county, it is seen less than many of the county's other covered bridges that are closer to the major populations centers such as Lancaster.

::* 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.

Most of the county's population lives on the largest four islands, which are the only county islands served by the Washington State Ferries.

Pacific County is centered on the Willapa Bay, a region that provides twenty-five percent of the United States oyster harvest, though forestry, fishing, and tourism are also important elements of the county's economy.

The three of county's Virginia State Senate seats are held by Democrats and one by a Republican, including Democratic Sen. Charles Colgan, the President pro tempore of the Senate.

One-third of Patrick County is in the rolling Piedmont region, and the remaining two-thirds are in the picturesque Blue Ridge Mountains, where the Blue Ridge Parkway forms the county's western border with Carroll and Floyd counties to the north.

Karst topography is the name for the honeycomb type limestone formations ( including caves, sinkholes and fissures ) that are typical in the county's limestone geology west of Interstate 35.

Popular music is also common, the county's most acclaimed rock artist being the Ballyshannon-born Rory Gallagher.

The census-designated place of Stevensville is the county's most populous place.

The official county seat has been located in Titusville since 1894, although most of the county's administration is performed from Viera.

As of 2010, the county's estimated population was 1, 320, 134, making it the twenty-eighth most populous in the United States.

The first successful oil well in Alabama was drilled at Gilbertown in 1944, with oil and gas becoming the county's most important industry.

It is a unique ecological system covering more than and a mosaic of creeks, open water, perennial marshes, seasonal wetlands, riparian forests, oak woodlands and grasslands ... As the receiving water of a watershed where most of the county's human population lives, it is a landscape feature of critical importance to Sonoma County's water quality, flood control, and biodiversity.

He was at Somerset in the most successful time in the county's history.

The Colorado River forms most of the county's western boundary, and California, Nevada and Utah all border it.

The Cabell County Court House in Huntington, the building that houses most of the county's administrative offices.

The county's location directly adjacent to both the Roanoke and the Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford Metropolitan Statistical Areas have contributed to modest population growth in contrast to most rural counties in Southwest Virginia.

The city of Midland had most of the county's population but only elected one of the five county commissioners which was found to violate the Fourteenth Amendment.

The southern third of the county between Philadelphia and Trenton, New Jersey, often called Lower Bucks, resides in the Atlantic Coastal Plain, and is flat and near sea level, and the county's most populated and industrialized area.

According to Oregon Geographic Names, the origins of the county's name are uncertain, with the most likely explanation being that it is derived from the Nez Perce term for a structure of stakes ( a weir ) used in fishing.

Steens Mountain is the county's most prominent geographical feature, rising above sea level and spanning many miles across a region that is otherwise fairly flat.

About half the county's workforce commutes out of the county to work, most to the nearby Portland, Oregon metro area.

The Sheffield Urban Area is the ninth most populous conurbation in the UK, and dominates the western half of South Yorkshire with over half of the county's population living within it.

The foothills and valleys of the Blue Ridge form most of the county's midsection, with some elevations exceeding 2, 000 feet ( 610 meters ).

Due to the county's proximity to Virginia, the Carolina coast, and the Appalachian foothills, a wide variety of Southern American English dialects can be heard, with Virginia Piedmont, Coastal Southern, South Midland, and African American Vernacular English the most common.

One of the county's most famous attractions is the yearly Lexington Barbecue Festival, held in the city of Lexington during the month of October, bringing in over 100, 000 visitors from all over the southeastern U. S. There is also a yearly Davidson County Agriculture Fair held in September.

As of the 2010 U. S. Census, the county's population was 101, 492, the tenth most populous county in Missouri.