# What US counties do you know? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 8, 2019, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-us-counties-do-you-know/838343 "2019-08-08T11:14:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-us-counties-do-you-know/838343/41 "2019-08-09T05:14:01Z")
Lots of them. I could name most of those in Oregon and Washington where I live or lived, But outside of those states and not named in the OP, there’s New York: Bronx County, Richmond County (Staten Island) Boise: Ada County Minneapolis: Hennepin County Chicago: Cook County Nashville: Davison County Miami: Dade County Houston: Harris County San Antonio: Bexar County Long Island: Nassau County Just north of the Bronx: Westchester County Green Bay: Brown County Oshkosh WI: Winnebago County various counties in California: Inyo, Kern, Yolo, Placer, Marin (I could tell you roughly where they are, if you want) Abilene TX: Taylor County (used to live there) Atlanta area: Dekalb County Pittsburgh area: Allegheny County, Washington County[1] In Maryland, next to DC: Prince George’s County; I believe there’s a Princess Anne County in MD, too. Lewes County DE (I believe it’s the southernmost of Delaware’s counties) Phoenix: Maricopa County Lewis and Clark County, Montana (somewhere in the western half of the state) Give me more time, and I could add a bunch. Possibly even double the count. [1] There’s 31 Washington Counties, but except for the one in Pennsylvania and the one I currently reside in, I don’t known which states.[2] Similarly for the 26 Jefferson Counties, 25 Franklin Counties, 24 Jackson Counties, 23 Lincoln Counties, and 20 Madison Counties. I don’t think I should count those. [2] Just remembered: one of the Washington Counties is in Rhode Island and I’m fairly sure there’s a Washington Parish in Louisiana. ---
**Author:** ![Kimble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimble/32/19185_2.png) [@Kimble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimble)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-us-counties-do-you-know/838343/42 "2019-08-09T09:13:40Z")
What doesn’t count for me: TN: Lots of them – except for Knox/Knoxville, pretty much every city you’ve heard of is in a different-named county. Since I’ve lived there almost my whole life, I won’t count them. CA: Lived in Glendale for a year, so SoCal doesn’t count for me. NC: Step-grandparents lived in Mecklenburg County (Charlotte); large chunks of my family are from Ashe County, NC (no city I can name; Asheville is in Buncombe County, from which we get “bunkum,” “bunk,” and “debunk.”) What does count: GA: Fulton, DeKalb, Cobb, Gwinnett (Atlanta and suburbs) FL: Dade, Broward (Miami and Fort Lauderdale) AL: Jefferson (Birmingham) KY: Jefferson (Louisville) OH: Hamilton (Cincinnati) MI: Wayne (Detroit) IL: Cook (Chicago) PA: Chester (Philadelphia suburbs) NY: Richmond, Kings, Nassau (Staten Island, Brooklyn, Long Island) MD: Prince George, Anne Arundel (College Park, Annapolis) TX: Harris, Tarrant (Houston, Fort Worth) AZ: Maricopa (Phoenix) OR: Multnomah (Portland) WA: King (Seattle) ---
**Author:** ![fedman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/278dde/32.png) [@fedman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-us-counties-do-you-know/838343/43 "2019-08-09T09:23:18Z")
> [@curwin](#): > > What counties can you name, that don’t have the name of the city in them? (And obviously the ones near to where you’re from are less interesting for the purposes of this question, so I’m leaving out the ones from the Bay Area and Boston) > > Here’s the ones I can think of: > > Kings > Queens > Dade > Cook > Cuyahoga > Orange cuyahoga is Cleveland Ohio county ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-us-counties-do-you-know/838343/44 "2019-08-09T09:29:11Z")
ive lived in Marin County CA (born at fort ord) Howard county IN and LA county ca … ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-us-counties-do-you-know/838343/45 "2019-08-09T14:10:03Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > ive lived in Marin County CA (born at fort ord) Howard county IN and LA county ca … I love Howard County! That whole area around Kokomo is just fantastic; terrific people. You trap me anywhere between say Thorntown-Tipton-Kokomo-Gas City (which is Grant County BTW) and I would be a very happy prisoner. ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-us-counties-do-you-know/838343/46 "2019-08-09T15:26:03Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > …Lewes County DE (I believe it’s the southernmost of Delaware’s counties)… Lewes is a town in Sussex County, which is the biggest and southernmost of Delaware’s three. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-us-counties-do-you-know/838343/47 "2019-08-09T16:17:23Z")
I also want to give a shout out for Warren County Kentucky; not just for Bowling Green and the terrific amusement park they have but for having kept a man named “Peanuts” the office of sheriff for (I believe) over 40 years. He was replaced by a guy named Hightower who looks nothing like the guy in the Police Academy movies. Something in all that etched the name into my brain and I still have some “Peanuts for Sheriff” stuff as souvenirs from my one trip out there. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-us-counties-do-you-know/838343/48 "2019-08-09T16:32:15Z")
> [@Bayaker](#): > > Lewes is a town in Sussex County, which is the biggest and southernmost of Delaware’s three. OK, scratch that one. Obviously my memory got those names confused. However, now that I think about it, the seat of that county is Georgetown (which is not named after either a king or a guy named Washington, as one would expect). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-us-counties-do-you-know/838343.md?page=2)