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The county lies northeast of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area though many consider it an extension of the Oklahoma City metro area due to commuter patterns and other indicators.
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More industrial acreage lies vacant in St. Clair county than in any other jurisdiction in the St. Louis area.
The village lies within the North Dorset administrative district of the county, about south-west of the town of Gillingham.
She was the namesake of Charlotte, North Carolina, USA and the county in which it lies as well as Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
Celebration lies on unincorporated land within Osceola County, with a thin strip of still-incorporated land separating it from the rest of the county.
Much of the county lies in the broad Hagerstown Valley between these two zones ; the valley is part of the Great Appalachian Valley that continues southward into Virginia and West Virginia as the Shenandoah Valley and northward into Pennsylvania as the Cumberland Valley.
Most of Howard County lies in Humid subtropical climate zone, with the western edge of the county approaching the transition between the Humid subtropical climate zone and the Humid continental climate zone.
The county also lies on the international border between the United States and Canada, bordering the Province of Ontario.
The entire county lies within the Little Miami River watershed, with the exception of extreme eastern areas, which are within the Scioto River watershed.
The sheriff of Broward County, where the Indian reservation lies, made arrests the minute the bingo hall opened, and the tribe sued the county ( Seminole Tribe v. Butterworth ), stating that Indian tribes have sovereignty rights that are protected by the federal government from interference by state government.
The county lies generally between the Great Salt Lake on the west and the Wasatch Range on the east, which rises to a height of in the county at Thurston Peak.
The narrow, populated portion that lies between the Great Salt Lake and the Wasatch Range is a portion of the Wasatch Front, which is very narrow at this point, complicating north-south transportation in the county.
Lake-effect snows hit the southern portion of the county harder, and even in non-lake-effect storms, the lack of a rain shadow in Davis County ( much of Salt Lake County lies in the rain shadow of the Oquirrh Mountains ) means that storms often hit Davis County harder.
On the western edge of the county lies the Wellsville Mountains and on the eastern edge lie the Bear River Mountains, both northern branches of the Wasatch Range.
Most of Bryce Canyon National Park lies in the southwestern part of the county and the northern half of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument occupies the middle of the county.
Also, the northernmost extension of Canyonlands National Park lies in the southwest corner of the county.
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The terrain of the county is mostly hilly, especially in the Hudson Highlands in the southwestern corner and the Taconic Mountains to the northeast.
Oneida Lake is on the northwestern corner of the county, and the Adirondack Park is on the northeast.
Lillehammer is located to the south of the municipality of Øyer, to the southeast of Gausdal, northeast of Nordre Land, and to the north of Gjøvik, all in Oppland county.
Today, most of the population resides in Layton, Bountiful, Kaysville, and Clearfield while most of the growth is concentrated in the northwest, northeast, and southwest portions of the county, and especially in such cities as Syracuse, Clinton, West Point, South Weber, and Woods Cross.
The county is generally flat, characteristic of the region, with a few small hills in the northeast.
It is the only county in California bordered by both Nevada and Arizona, and is one of only two counties in California bordering more than one U. S. state ( the other being Modoc County, bordering Nevada and Oregon in the northeast corner of the state ).
Route 34 forms a brief concurrency with County Route 4 until the county route heads northeast on South Street.
The primary mountains within the county ( From west to east: Wills, Evitts, Dunning, and Tussey mountains ) extend from the southern border with Maryland to the northeast into Blair County, and are held up by the Silurian Tuscarora Formation, made of quartz sandstone and conglomerate.
At the mouth of the Trempealeau River, which flows from northeast to southwest across the county on its way to the Mississippi River, they found a bluff surrounded by water and called it " La Montagne qui trempe à l ’ eau ," which means " mountain with its foot in the water.
A band of Huron Indians from eastern Ontario had fled the Iroquois and taken refuge near the headwaters of the Black River, probably around Lake Chelsea in the northeast part of the county.
Today hikers can follow the Ice Age National Scenic Trail through the national forest and the northeast corner of the county.
The independent city of Fredericksburg is located northeast of the county but is politically separate.
The oil and gas industry became increasingly important to Terrell County's economy after 1957, when the Brown-Bassett gas field was discovered in the northeast part of the county.
The county is bounded on the north by Pine Island Bayou, on the northeast by the Neches River, and on the east by Sabine Lake and the mouth of the Sabine River, a natural outlet called Sabine Pass.
U. S. Highway 90 crosses the county in the north ; U. S. Highway 385 enters Brewster County from the northeast and proceeds south to the county's main attraction, Big Bend National Park, part of the Big Bend.
The county is divided into two nearly equal divisions by the Tennessee River, which enters about midway on the south side and passes out near the northeast corner, flowing northwards.
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