Hamilton County is the name of ten counties in the United States of America, eight of them named for Alexander Hamilton, first United States Secretary of the Treasury:
- Hamilton County, Florida
- Hamilton County, Illinois
- Hamilton County, Indiana
- Hamilton County, Iowa (named for William W. Hamilton, president of the Iowa state senate)
- Hamilton County, Kansas
- Hamilton County, Nebraska
- Hamilton County, New York, the least populous county on the list, most sparsely populated county in the eastern half of the United States
- Hamilton County, Ohio, the most populous county on the list
- Hamilton County, Tennessee
- Hamilton County, Texas (named for James Hamilton Jr., Governor of South Carolina from 1830 to 1832)
Famous quotes containing the words hamilton and/or county:
“Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word.”
—Gail Hamilton (1833–1896)
“Anti-Nebraska, Know-Nothings, and general disgust with the powers that be, have carried this county [Hamilton County, Ohio] by between seven and eight thousand majority! How people do hate Catholics, and what a happiness it was to show it in what seemed a lawful and patriotic manner.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)