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Hey ya geo steve, you live in a Douglas County? So do I, but in WI. I don't know about the horse riding paths though my neighbors have horses, I haven't ridden horses for many years. I did get into some mapping before, like Pam, had some classes. Had Intro to GIS, GPS, Aerial Photo Interpretation, (aced those) and hey Pam, I even had that awful lymes but I got it a few years before I did the internship field work.
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Yeah ! Seems like almost every state has counties named after noteworthy historical figures, primarily, and of course Native American Tribes , too.
In Colorado, we have, of 64 counties, the usual peppering ( out west) of the following representative examples: (oh - they are also derived from early explorers, and pre-state-hood cultural dominance, as in Southern Colorado being Spanish-American that psuhed up noth as far as the names quite clearly change in counties. In the south of Colorado:
examples: 1. Cortez (county)
2. El paso , etc.
up North, Native American: 3. Arapahoe
4. Apache
all around, historical names: 5. Lincoln
6. Washington
7. Adams
8. Jefferson
and "mountainey" 9. Summit
10. Eagle
and 54 other mixed bag names, including DOUGLAS, which you inquired about,
that allthough a common name, must have been an historical figure.
In Ohio, I was born in Cleveland, which is in Cuyahoga County, after the Indian Tribe.
Cool that you had that coursework, near and dear to my list of early courses.
Bummer on the Lymes disease, but its the Eastern Land Surveyors' #1 occupational hazard, leaving most Eastern, and notably original 13 colonies-based Surveyors with permanent sore joints, and almost exclusively metes-and-bounds land legal desciptions, eg Bearing and distance, + call-to-adjoiners; natural and man-made monuments, streams that bound - and so goeth the boundary with slow change of the stream - thru reliction, revulsion, and acrretion (those sound like digestive disturbaces lol). even some fun ones like (real) "20 Hatchet-throws to the SW'ly corner, marked by a cigar in a bottle, buried under a limestone square memorial rock, and then 10 "smokes" to the thread of "meandering steam" (turning ox-bow), etc. Some are real hoots and a holler - literally. LOL
Thx Patti - From my experience in Cadastral Mapping, the most prevalent County names in the USA co-terminous 48 are two-fold: Politicians post-humously (unwritten rule in geo naming, written at USGS) and Native American Tribes. All fascinating.
