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Modoc County, California
Modoc County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
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Named: It derived its name from a fierce Indian tribe that lived at
the Pit River headwaters. One historian suggests that the word modoc means "the
head of the river." Another states that the word is derived from the Klamath
word moatakni meaning "southerners," i.e., the people living south of the
Klamath tribe.
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Neighboring Counties:
- North: Lake County, Ore.
- Southeast: Washoe County, Nev.
- South: Lassen County
- Southwest: Shasta County
- West: Siskiyou County
- Northwest: Klamath County, Ore.
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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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