Newton County is the name of several counties in the United States: All except for Arkansas and maybe Mississippi are named for Sgt. John Newton.
Bold Name indicates county sharing boundary with a Jasper County. Five states have paired their two counties because of their namesake's common history.
- Newton County, Arkansas
- Newton County, Georgia
- Newton County, Indiana
- Newton County, Mississippi
- Newton County, Missouri
- Newton County, Texas
Famous quotes containing the words newton and/or county:
“I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called a hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.”
—Isaac Newton (1642–1727)
“I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I’d bet I wouldn’t lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.”
—Berkeley Breathed (b. 1957)