> Lucas County is named after the Governor of Ohio who defended the Port of Toledo from the interloping boy governor of Michigan's land grab in 1835 (Toledo-Michigan War). Lucas was also a surveyor.
Stevens T. Mason -
...the U.S. Congress refused to recognize Michigan as a state until the dispute with Ohio was resolved. In 1836, facing financial difficulties due to Michigan not being recognized as a state, Mason agreed to a compromise reached by the U.S. Congress and agreed to cede the disputed land to Ohio in exchange for the western two-thirds of the Upper Peninsula (Michigan already included the eastern third). A convention in September 1836 refused to go along with Mason, but Mason finally prevailed in a second convention in December 1836. On January 26, 1837, Michigan was admitted to the Union.
I'd say it was win-win 😉
Kern County
Dave didn't let me down.
Out of 58 counties, Kern is, in fact, the only California county named for anyone remotely associated with surveying. Most are named for Saints or after Spanish or Native American words for various features. Peter Lassen was a guide for Fremont but not a surveyor. Hugh Glenn, Alexander Von Humbolt and John Sutter also were not surveyors, although Sutter may have dabbled in it on his own vast properties.
Don
Wow...this is gonna be tough
We got so many counties in CT that I can't even name them all 😛 😉
We have a whopping 8 counties...AS far as I know none are named after a surveyor.
I don't know "all" of the counties in Colorado, but besides Lincoln, Washington, and perhaps Jackson, there is "Kit Carson", (John C.) "Fremont", and (James William) "Denver".
I would have to do some research on some others.
Originally, Washington was to be named Columbia, but they decided not to. It might make it confusing, with the capitol of the country being District of Columbia....:-)
Conway County, Arkansas
Named after the first Governor of Arkansas, James Sevier Conway
http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?search=1&entryID=97
In 1818, the family moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where Conway learned the art of land surveying from his uncle William Rector, surveyor general for Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas.
Appointed as a federal land surveyor in 1820, Conway was assigned to survey the territory of Arkansas’s western boundary with the Choctaw Nation and the southern boundary with Louisiana. Conway surveyed the Choctaw boundary slightly to the south-southwest, rather than in a “true south” direction as instructed. This “improper” survey added over 100,000 acres to Arkansas and sparked a dispute with Choctaw leaders, which was not settled until 1886. In that year, the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Choctaw claim but allowed Arkansas to keep the Conway survey. The Choctaw were compensated fifty cents per acre for the lost acreage.
In 1832, Conway was named surveyor general of Arkansas Territory. His income as a surveyor allowed him to purchase land along the Red River fifteen miles west of present-day Bradley (Lafayette County). By the mid-1830s, he owned more than 2,000 acres of land and eighty slaves. Now in the planter class, he built a larger house a short distance from his original dwelling and named his plantation Walnut Hill. His wealth also allowed him to build a summer cottage at Magnet Cove (Hot Spring County) and a bathhouse at Hot Springs (Garland County).
Conway died of pneumonia on March 3, 1855, and was buried in the family cemetery at Walnut Hill. (Now the site of Conway Cemetery Historic State Park)
http://www.arkansasstateparks.com/conwaycemetery/
Note that Sevier County, Arkansas was not named after James Sevier Conway...
It was named after Ambrose Hundley Sevier...who is also buried in the Conway Cemetery...
http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?search=1&entryID=1760
DDSM
How 'bout Colonel William Crawford. Revolutionary War hero, friend of Washington and a land surveyor. That's embarrassing, he is relation, six generations back.
More Texas Counties Named for Surveyors
I am not sure if the surveyor came first or the county.
Thomas Benton Wilson
R. Ernest Lee
John T. Mason
Irving Webb
William Hunt
