In an early example of a Private Finance Initiative ( PFI ), under the Dartford-Thurrock Crossing Act 1988 control of the crossing passed from Kent and Essex county councils to Dartford River Crossing Limited in 1988, who would fund the construction of the QEII bridge and take on the remaining debt from construction of the tunnels.

It is the oldest bridge in the county still in use.

After the Landis Mill Covered Bridge, it is the second shortest covered bridge in the county.

Lancaster county completely rebuilt the bridge in 1992 for $ 350, 000.

The bridge is purportedly the only covered bridge in the county that is not built perpendicular to the stream it crosses due to the placement of the sawmill on one side of the bridge and the rock formations faced by the builders on the other side.

The bridge, which spans the Conestoga River, is 180 feet ( 54. 9 m ) long, making it the longest single span covered bridge in the county.

In 1973, following destruction from the hurricane, it was rebuilt at a cost of $ 321, 302 .< sup > Note :</ sup > Its length of 180 feet makes it the longest single-span covered bridge in the county.

The bridge is the only all white bridge in the county, the only bridge to have survived the transition from whitewashing to the red color commonly used in barns throughout the county.

At 53 feet ( 16. 2 m ), it is the shortest covered bridge in the county.

It is the only bridge in the county to use this design.

It is purportedly the narrowest covered bridge in the county.

Unlike many other bridges in the county the bridge withstood Hurricane Agnes, despite being filled with 6-and-a-half feet of water.

It is the only covered bridge in the county painted entirely in red, the traditional color of Lancaster County covered bridges, on both the inside and outside including both approaches.

San Saba County is home to the only suspension bridge open to traffic in the State ; the Regency Bridge spanning the Colorado River, located off FM 500 in the northern part of the county, was built in 1939.

About of the county is separated from the rest of the state by the Mississippi River, requiring travelers to cross into Tennessee by road ( there is no bridge from Missouri ), to reach the Kentucky Bend exclave.

Other state roads in the county include State Road 62, which closely parallels I-64 ; State Road 145, which winds through the western parts of the county ; State Road 166, which is little more than a road to and from the hamlet of Tobinsport ; State Road 237, which connects Cannelton directly to State Road 37 ( also the site of a bridge on the Ohio River ); a short run of State Road 545 near Troy ; and State Road 70 which connects State Road 37 with State Road 66.

Thus 59 " counties in themselves ", or ' county boroughs ', were created to administer the urban centres of England.

However, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for 1011 relates that Vikings overran " all Kent, Sussex, Surrey and Haestingas ", indicating the town was still considered a separate ' county ' or province to its neighbours 240 years after Offa's conquest.

In informal use, the word county is often dropped except where necessary to distinguish between county and town or city ; thus " Offaly " rather than " County Offaly ", but " County Antrim " to distinguish it from Antrim town.

With the d ' Isigny name anglicised as " Disney ", the family settled in a village now known as Norton Disney, south of the city of Lincoln, in the county of Lincolnshire.

In the Republic each county is administered by an elected " county council ", and the old provincial divisions are merely traditional names with no political significance.

Of these remaining 48 states, 46 use the term " county " while Alaska and Louisiana use the terms " borough " and " parish ", respectively, for analogous jurisdictions.

These five are each called borough in context of City government – Manhattan, The Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island ( formerly Richmond ); but are still called " county " where state function is involved, e. g., " New York County Courthouse ", not " Manhattan ".

The Dukes of Hazzard follows the adventures of " The Duke Boys ", cousins Bo and Luke Duke, who live in a rural part of the fictional Hazzard County, Georgia with their attractive cousin Daisy and their wise old Uncle Jesse, as they race around in their customized 1969 Dodge Charger stock car, christened ( The ) General Lee, evading crooked county commissioner Boss Hogg and his inept county sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane, and always managing to get caught in the middle of the various escapades and incidents that often occur in the area.

Much of what is now county Cork was once part of the Kingdom of Deas Mumhan ( South Munster ), anglicised as " Desmond ", ruled by the MacCarthy Mór dynasty.

Darby first cites F. W. Maitland's comment following his compilation of a table of statistics from material taken from the Domesday Book survey, " it will be remembered that, as matters now stand, two men not unskilled in Domesday might add up the number of hides in a county and arrive at very different results because they would hold different opinions as to the meanings of certain formulas which are not uncommon ", then after adding that " each county presents its own problems " Darby concedes that " it would be more correct to speak not of ' the Domesday geography of England ', but of ' the geography of Domesday Book '.

In s. 2 of the Act each council formed for a county is allocated the respective English and Welsh descriptions of " County Council " or " Cyngor Sir ", each council formed for a County Borough is allocated the respective descriptions of " County Borough Council " or " Cyngor Bwrdeistref Sirol "; in all cases the shorter alternative forms " Council " or " Cyngor " can be used.

In colloquial Canadian French, a riding is confusingly known as comté, i. e., " county ", as the electoral districts in Quebec were historically identical to its counties ; the official French term is circonscription.

Although the Kansas Constitution was amended in 1986 to allow the sale of alcoholic liquor by the individual drink with the approval of voters, Clay County has remained a prohibition, or " dry ", county.

Following amendment to the Kansas Constitution in 1986, the county remained a prohibition, or " dry ", county until 1998, when voters approved the sale of alcoholic liquor by the individual drink without a food sales requirement.

The Weber County Surveyor's office divides the county into two regions, the " Lower Valley " and the " Upper Valley ", divided by the ridge of the Wasatch front range running north-south through the county.

In January 1667, the county administration laid out the five initial districts, designated as " Hundreds ", into which the county would be divided.

Thus on February 10, 1885, convinced that these were the descendants of the Lost Colony, he helped to pass the " Croatan bill ", that officially designated the Native American population around Robeson county as Croatan.

By votes in the commission, the commissioners are given executive responsibilities for the various county departments, which fall under the categories of " Roads and Transportation ", " Community Development ", " Environmental Services ", " Health and Human Services ", " Technlogy and Land Development ", and " Finance and General Services ".

* 1838 Gonzales men found the town of Walnut Springs in the northwest section of the county.

The county is divided into fourteen townships: Belmont, Chester, Clark, East Choleau, Garfield, Grandview, Holland, Independence, Iowa, Joubert, Lincoln, Valley, Walnut Grove, Washington.

Major creeks in the county include Big Darby Creek, Big Walnut Creek, and Alum Creek.

The major rivers of the county are the Scioto River, Olentangy River, Alum Creek, and the Big Walnut Creek.

The county is divided into twenty-two townships: Antioch, Beaver Creek, Boomer, Brushy Mountains, Edwards, Elk Creek, Hays, Jobs Cabin, Lewis Fork, Lovelace, Moravian Falls, Mulberry, New Castle, North Wilkesboro, Rock Creek, Somers, Stanton, Traphill, Union, Walnut Grove, Millers Creek and Wilkesboro.

The county is divided into eleven townships, which are both numbered and named: 1 ( North Marshall and South Marshall ), 2 ( Laurel ), 3 ( Mars Hill ), 4 ( Beech Glenn ), 5 ( Walnut ), 6 ( Hot Springs ), 7 ( Ebbs Chapel ), 8 ( Spring Creek ), 9 ( Sandy Mush ), 10 ( Grapevine ), and 11 ( Revere Rice Cove ).

The county is divided into nine townships: Brassfield, Dutchville, Fishing Creek, Oak Hill, Oxford, Salem, Sassafras Fork, Tally Ho, and Walnut Grove.

The county is divided into fourteen townships, which are both numbered and named: 1 ( Tarboro ), 2 ( Lower Conetoe ), 3 ( Upper Conetoe ), 4 ( Deep Creek ), 5 ( Lower Fishing Creek ), 6 ( Upper Fishing Creek ), 7 ( Swift Creek ), 8 ( Sparta ), 9 ( Otter Creek ), 10 ( Lower Town Creek ), 11 ( Walnut Creek ), 12 ( Rocky Mount ), 13 ( Cokey ), and 14 ( Upper Town Creek ).

The county seat is Walnut Ridge.

The Chung Shan people resided in Locke, while Walnut Grove was populated by immigrants from Toi Shan county in China.

In 1779 the western part of Dobbs County became Wayne County, and the county seat was moved from its original location on Walnut Creek to the town of Kingston, which was renamed Kinston in 1784.

The major central county cities along Interstate 680 are Martinez, Concord, Pleasant Hill, Walnut Creek, Danville, San Ramon, and unincorporated Alamo.

** The cities of Diamond Bar, Pomona and Walnut were added to Golden Eagle District when Old Baldy Council was split at the Los Angeles – San Bernardino county line on May 1, 2006, and was merged into the San Gabriel Valley Council and California Inland Empire Council.

With 5, 920 exits each weekday, Walnut Creek is the busiest BART station on the Pittsburg / Bay Point – SFO / Millbrae line and the second-busiest in Contra Costa County, with El Cerrito del Norte being the busiest in the county.