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Columbia County, OregonColumbia County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
Etymology - Origin of County NameColumbia County, named for the Columbia River, was created in 1854 from the northern half of Washington County. Demographics:County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts County HistoryColumbia County, named for the
Columbia River, was created in 1854 from the northern half of Washington County.
It covers 646 square miles and is bounded on the north and east by the Columbia
River, on the west by Clatsop County, and on the south by Washington and
Multnomah Counties. Columbia County was the sixteenth county created in Oregon
and is the third smallest county in Oregon after Multnomah and Hood River
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The history of our nation was a prolonged struggle to define
the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local.
And the names given the counties, our most locally based jurisdictions,
reflects the "characteristic features of this 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." |