Pike County

Pike County is the name of ten counties in the United States:

  • Pike County, Alabama
  • Pike County, Arkansas
  • Pike County, Georgia
  • Pike County, Illinois
  • Pike County, Indiana
  • Pike County, Kentucky
  • Pike County, Mississippi
  • Pike County, Missouri
  • Pike County, Ohio
  • Pike County, Pennsylvania

All were named to honor Zebulon Pike.

Famous quotes containing the words pike and/or county:

    “Did you ever hear tell of Sweet Betsy from Pike.
    Who crossed the wide mountains with her lover Ike,”
    —Unknown. Sweet Betsey from Pike (l. 1–2)

    “Don’t you know there are 200 temperance women in this county who control 200 votes. Why does a woman work for temperance? Because she’s tired of liftin’ that besotted mate of hers off the floor every Saturday night and puttin’ him on the sofa so he won’t catch cold. Tonight we’re for temperance. Help yourself to them cloves and chew them, chew them hard. We’re goin’ to that festival tonight smelling like a hot mince pie.”
    —Laurence Stallings (1894–1968)