Humboldt County

English

Proper noun

Humboldt County

1. One of 58 counties in California, United States. County seat: Eureka. Named after Humboldt Bay.
   • 1998, Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents, HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP (2019), page 60:

     This part of Humboldt County along the coast and in the hills [...] was cooler when I was a boy.

2. One of 99 counties in Iowa, United States. County seat: Dakota City. Named after Alexander von Humboldt.
3. One of 16 counties in Nevada, United States. County seat: Winnemucca. Named after the Humboldt River.

References

• Index of U.S. counties on Wikipedia.Wikipedia