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- List_of_counties_in_Washington abstract "There are 39 counties in the U.S. state of Washington. Washington came from what was previously the western part of Washington Territory and was admitted to the Union as the 42nd state in 1889. The first counties were created from unorganized territory in 1845. Eight of the counties were created by Oregon governments prior to the organization of Washington Territory, 26 were created during Washington's territorial period, and five more were created after Washington became a state (Benton, Chelan, Grant, Ferry, and Pend Oreille).Article XI of the Washington State Constitution addresses the organization of counties. New counties must have a population of at least 2,000 and no county can be reduced to a population below 4,000 due to partitioning to create a new county. At least one early county, named Quillehuyte, was disestablished by the territorial government due to low population. To alter the area of a county, the state constitution requires a petition of the "majority of the voters" in that area. A number of county partition proposals in the 1990s interpreted this as a majority of people who voted, until a 1998 ruling by the Washington Supreme Court clarified that they would need a majority of registered voters.The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code, used by the United States government to uniquely identify counties, is provided with each entry. The FIPS code links in the table point to U. S. Census "quick facts" pages for each county.Washington's postal abbreviation is WA and its FIPS state code is 53.".
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- List_of_counties_in_Washington data "A Chinookan word meaning "swift water"".
- List_of_counties_in_Washington data "A Klallam word meaning "the strong people"".
- List_of_counties_in_Washington data "A Native American word meaning "deep water", likely referring to Lake Chelan".
- List_of_counties_in_Washington data "A Salish Native American word meaning "rendezvous"".
- List_of_counties_in_Washington data "Abraham Lincoln , 16th U.S. President".
- List_of_counties_in_Washington data "Benjamin Franklin , writer, orator, inventor, and U.S. Founding Father".
- List_of_counties_in_Washington data "Charles H. Mason , 1st Secretary of Washington Territory".
- List_of_counties_in_Washington data "Chief Kitsap , leader of the Suquamish tribe".
- List_of_counties_in_Washington data "Clark County".
- List_of_counties_in_Washington data "Columbia County".
- List_of_counties_in_Washington data "Cowlitz County".
- List_of_counties_in_Washington data "Cowlitz, an Indian tribe".
- List_of_counties_in_Washington data "Douglas County".
- List_of_counties_in_Washington data "Elisha P. Ferry , 1st Governor of Washington State".
- List_of_counties_in_Washington data "Ferguson County".
- List_of_counties_in_Washington data "Franklin Pierce , 14th U.S. President".
- List_of_counties_in_Washington data "Garfield County".
- List_of_counties_in_Washington data "Grays Harbor, a body of water named after explorer and merchant Robert Gray".
- List_of_counties_in_Washington data "Isaac Stevens , 1st Governor of the Washington Territory".
- List_of_counties_in_Washington data "Island County".
- List_of_counties_in_Washington data "James A. Garfield , 20th U.S. President".
- List_of_counties_in_Washington data "Jefferson County".
- List_of_counties_in_Washington data "John Adams , 2nd U.S. President".
- List_of_counties_in_Washington data "King County".
- List_of_counties_in_Washington data "King and Jefferson Counties".
- List_of_counties_in_Washington data "Kittitas tribe word of uncertain meaning, with popular translations ranging from "white chalk" to "land of the plenty"".
- List_of_counties_in_Washington data "Leader of Wahkiakum , Native American tribe".
- List_of_counties_in_Washington data "Lewis County".
- List_of_counties_in_Washington data "Lincoln County".
- List_of_counties_in_Washington data "Marcus Whitman , a Methodist missionary".
- List_of_counties_in_Washington data "Meriwether Lewis , the co-captain of the Lewis and Clark Expedition".