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Santa Clara County, California
Santa Clara County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
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Named: The county is named after Mission Santa Clara, which was
established in 1777, and named for Saint Clara of Assisi, Italy. The name Clara
means "clear" or "bright." State & County QuickFacts:
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Neighboring Counties:
- Northeast: San Joaquin County; Stanislaus County
- East: Merced County
- Southeast: San Benito County
- Southwest: Santa Cruz County
- Northwest: San Mateo County; Alameda County
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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,
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Penn Foster High School
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