The county seat of Plattsburg derives it name from a town of a similar name that is the county seat of Clinton County, New York, which was also named for the Governor.

Vernon, the geographical center of the county derives is named for George Washington's Virginia home, Mt.

The Franciscans gave the name San Bernardino to the snowcapped peak in Southern California, in honor of the saint and it is from him that the county derives its name.

The county derives its name from the town of Madera, named when the California Lumber Company built a log flume to carry lumber to the Central Pacific Railroad there in 1876.

The county derives its name from the Merced River, or El Río de Nuestra Señora de la Merced ( River of Our Lady of Mercy ); named in 1806 by an expedition, headed by Gabriel Moraga, which came upon it at the end of a hot dusty ride.

The county derives its name from the mission.

At the request of General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, the county derives its name directly from an Indian Chief, Chief Solano of the Suisun people, a Native American tribe of the region and Vallejo's close ally.

The name Coös derives from the Algonquian Indian term meaning crooked, the Indian name of the Connecticut River, which rises in the northernmost end of the county.

Its name derives from the local terrain: much of the county consists of valley land lying between the North and Middle Loup Rivers.

However, an alternative theory is that it derives from a lake and a county in New York state, which are said to bear the name derived from a Mohawk Iroquoian word meaning either " clear water " or " meeting place.

The city of South Bend is the county seat of St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States, on the St. Joseph River near its southernmost bend, from which it derives its name.

The name Exeter derives from the county town and cathedral city of Exeter in Devon, England.

The name derives from Worstead, a village in the English county of Norfolk.

The province derives from the French Revolutionary Jemmape department, formed in 1795 from most of the medieval County of Hainaut, Tournai and the Tournaisis, a part of the county of Namur ( Charleroi ) and of the Bishopric of Liège ( Thuin ).

The title derives from the family's extensive lands in the hundred of West Derby, Lancashire, and not the county or city of Derby.

From this derives the name borne by the county ( xian ) since the late 6th century BC — Guancheng ( City of the Guan ).

It derives its name from its county town, the Royal burgh of Selkirk.

It lay on the southern border of the county and the name of the community derives from the name ' Blackstone '.

The division apparently derives from the ethnic differences between the Jutish settlement of the east of the county and the Saxon presence in the west, although its origins are somewhat obscure.

The village has a population of 295 (), and derives its name from having one of only three stone church steeples in the county ( the others being at Iwerne Minster and Trent ).

The county derives its name from Lady Caroline Eden, wife of Maryland's last colonial governor of the Province of Maryland, Robert Eden.

The name derives from Panola County, Texas, of which Carthage is the county seat.

Located in the eastern part of the county along the south shore of Chaleur Bay, Nash Creek derives its name from a creek of the same name.

It recognizes the fact that what helps one county helps its neighbors and that by banding together in an area-wide effort better results can be accomplished than through the go-it-alone approach.

St. Louis county under its present leadership also has largely closed its eyes to the need for governmental reform, and permitted parochial interests to take priority over area-wide interests.

He could no longer build anything, whether a private residence in his Pennsylvania county or a church in Brazil, without it being obvious that he had done it, and while here and there he was taken to task for again developing the same airy technique, they were such fanciful and sometimes even playful buildings that the public felt assured by its sense of recognition after a time, a quality of authentic uniqueness about them, which, once established by an artist as his private vision, is no longer disputable as to its other values.

The Republicans must hold a primary under the county unit system -- a system which the party opposes in its platform.

-- The Anne Arundel county school superintendent has asked that the Board of Education return to the practice of recording its proceedings mechanically so that there will be no more question about who said what.

A large, well-stocked library, surrounded in a county by smaller ones, may feel that the demands on its resources are likely to be too great.

Angus was historically a county ( known officially as Forfarshire from the 18th century until 1928, when it reverted to its ancient name ) until 1975 when it became a district of the Tayside Region.

Montrose in the north east of the county is notable for its tidal basin.

On 1 January 2007, the municipality lost its short-lived ( 2003 until 2006 ) county privileges and became part of Region Hovedstaden ( i. e. the Copenhagen Capital Region ).

The county was formed in 1585, and its boundaries reflect the Mac William Íochtar lordship at that time.

* The river Moy in the northeast of the county is renowned for its salmon fishing.

The county covers an area of 1, 691 km² ( 653 sq ; mi ), with a population of approximately 57, 527, with Enniskillen its county town.

The CIRA considers itself a direct continuation of the Irish Republican Army ( the army of the unilaterally-declared 1919 – 1922 Irish Republic ) that fought in the Irish War of Independence ; as such, its supporters regard it as the national army of a 32 county Irish Republic.

It is alleged that its chief of staff is a Limerick man and that a number of other key members are from that county.

In 1994, the administrative county ( which did not include the county borough of Dublin ) was dissolved and the area divided among the administrative counties of Dún Laoghaire – Rathdown, Fingal and South Dublin each with its county seat.

The area lost its administrative county status in 1994, with Section 9 Part 1 ( a ) of the Local Government ( Dublin ) Act, 1993 stating that " the county shall cease to exist.

The concept of a county town eventually became detached from its original meaning of where the county administration is based ( see County halls below ).

It is the seat of local government for Fermanagh District Council, and is also the county town of Fermanagh as well as its largest town.