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San Mateo County, California
San Mateo County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
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Named: The county bears the Spanish name for Saint Matthew. As a place
name, St. Matthew appears as early as 1776, and the arroyo, the point and the
settlement at the unofficial San Mateo Mission are all so designated on the
early maps. Until about 1850, the name appeared as San Matheo.
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Neighboring Counties:
- North: San Francisco city & county
- Northeast: Alameda County
- East: San Francisco Bay; Santa Clara County
- Southeast: Santa Cruz 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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