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:
“Strew your gladness on earth’s bed,
So be merry, so be dead.”
—Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895–1915)
“In the county there are thirty-seven churches
and no butcher shop. This could be taken
as a matter of all form and no content.”
—Maxine Kumin (b. 1925)