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Humboldt County, California
Humboldt County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
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Named: The county derived its name from Humboldt Bay, which was
entered by a sea otter party in 1806, but was not rediscovered until 1849. In
1850, Douglas Ottinger and Hans Buhne entered the bay, naming it Humboldt in
honor of the great naturalist and world explorer, Baron Alexander von Humboldt. State & County QuickFacts:
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Neighboring Counties:
- North: Del Norte County
- Northeast: Siskiyou County
- East: Trinity County
- Southeast: Mendocino County
- West: North Pacific Ocean
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County Resource Guide
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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we’ve given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the “characteristic features of
our country!”
But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn’t the only reason to explore counties’ role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.
Today’s counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990’s political slogan “Think globally, act locally.” |
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Penn Foster High School
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