قائمة مقاطعات ولاية واشنطن الأمريكية
ولاية واشنطن تتألف من 39 مقاطعة. The Provisional Government of Oregon established Vancouver and Lewis Counties in 1845 in unorganized Oregon Country, extending from the Columbia River north to 54°40′ north latitude. After the region was organized within the Oregon Territory with the current northern border of 49° north, Vancouver County was renamed Clark, and six more counties were created out of Lewis County before the organization of Washington Territory in 1853; 28 were formed during Washington's territorial period, two of which only existed briefly. The final five were established in the 22 years after Washington was admitted to the Union as the 42nd state in 1889.[1][2]
مقاطعات واشنطن | |
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الموقع | State of Washington |
العدد | 39 |
عدد السكان | 2,363 (Garfield) – 2,266,789 (King) |
المساحة | 175 square miles (450 km2) (San Juan) – 5,268 square miles (13,640 km2) (Okanogan) |
الحكومة | حكومة المقاطعة |
التقسيمات | cities, towns, townships, Indian reservations |
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.[3] 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.[4] No changes to counties have been made since the formation of Pend Oreille County in 1911, except when the small area of Cliffdell was moved from Kittitas to Yakima County in 1970.[5]
King County, home to the state's largest city, Seattle, holds almost 30 percent of Washington's population (2,266,789 residents of 7,785,786 in 2022), and has the highest population density, with more than 1,000 people per square mile (400/km2). Garfield County is both the least populated (2,363) and least densely populated (3.3/sq mi [1.3/km2]). Two counties, San Juan and Island, are composed only of islands. The average county is 1,830 square miles (4,700 km2), with 199,636 people.
Seventeen counties have Native American–derived names, including nine names of tribes whose land settlers would occupy. Another seventeen were named for political figures, only five of whom had lived in the region. The last five are named for geographic places.[6]
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 data pages for each county. Washington's FIPS state code is 53.
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الحوكمة
Counties provide a broad scope of services, including court operation, parks and recreation, libraries, arts, social services, elections, waste collection, roads and transportation, zoning and permitting, as well as taxation.[7][8] The extent of these vary, and some are administered by municipalities. Counties are not subdivided into minor civil divisions like townships; sub-county local government is only by incorporated cities and towns, as well as by 29 Indian reservations, while unincorporated areas are governed only by the county. There are 242 census county divisions for statistical purposes only.[9]
The default form of county government is the non-charter commission, with three to five elected commissioners serving as both the legislature and executive. Seven counties have adopted charters providing for home rule distinct from state law: King, Clallam, Whatcom, Snohomish, Pierce, San Juan, and Clark. Of these, King, Whatcom, Snohomish, and Pierce, four major counties on Puget Sound, elect a county executive. Councils in the other three charter counties appoint a manager to administer the government.[10] Voters may also elect a clerk, treasurer, sheriff, assessor, coroner, auditor (or recorder), and prosecuting attorney. Elections are nonpartisan in non-charter counties, but charter counties may choose to make some positions partisan, though all elections are by top-two primary.[10]
قائمة المقاطعات
هذه قائمة مقاطعات ولاية واشنطن في الولايات المتحدة:
- مقاطعة آيلاند، واشنطن
- مقاطعة أسوتين، واشنطن
- مقاطعة أوكانوغان، واشنطن
- مقاطعة ادمز، واشنطن
- مقاطعة باسيفيك، واشنطن
- مقاطعة بيرسي، واشنطن
- مقاطعة بينتن، واشنطن
- مقاطعة بيند أوريلي، واشنطن
- مقاطعة تشيلان، واشنطن
- مقاطعة ثورستون، واشنطن
- مقاطعة جيرفرسون، واشنطن
- مقاطعة دوغلاس، واشنطن
- مقاطعة سان خوان، واشنطن
- مقاطعة سبوكان، واشنطن
- مقاطعة ستيفينز، واشنطن
- مقاطعة سكاغيت، واشنطن
- مقاطعة سكامانيا، واشنطن
- مقاطعة سنوهوميش، واشنطن
- مقاطعة غرانت، واشنطن
- مقاطعة غرايز هاربور، واشنطن
- مقاطعة غيرفيلد، واشنطن
- مقاطعة فرانكلين، واشنطن
- مقاطعة فيري، واشنطن
- مقاطعة كلارك، واشنطن
- مقاطعة كلالام، واشنطن
- مقاطعة كليكيتات، واشنطن
- مقاطعة كولومبيا، واشنطن
- مقاطعة كوليتز، واشنطن
- مقاطعة كيتساب، واشنطن
- مقاطعة كيتيتاس، واشنطن
- مقاطعة كينغ، واشنطن
- مقاطعة لويس، واشنطن
- مقاطعة لينكون، واشنطن
- مقاطعة ماسون، واشنطن
- مقاطعة واتكوم، واشنطن
- مقاطعة والا والا، واشنطن
- مقاطعة واهيكاكوم، واشنطن
- مقاطعة وايتمان، واشنطن
- مقاطعة ياكيما، واشنطن
المقاطعة |
الكود |
مقر المقاطعة[11] |
Est.[11][12] |
تشكلت من[12][13] |
أصل الاسم |
السكان (2022) [14] |
المساحة [11] |
الخريطة |
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مقاطعة Adams | 001 | Ritzville | 1883 | ويتمان | جون أدمز (1735–1826), 2nd U.S. President[15] | 20,961 | ( 4٬986 كم²) |
1٬925 ميل²|
مقاطعة Asotin | 003 | Asotin | 1883 | Garfield County | The Nez Percé name for Eel Creek[16] | 22٬508 | ( 1٬647 كم²) |
636 ميل²|
مقاطعة Benton | 005 | Prosser | 1905 | Yakima and پوكپKlickitat Counties | Thomas Hart Benton (1782–1858), a U.S. Senator from Missouri[17] | 212٬791 | ( 4٬403 كم²) |
1٬700 ميل²|
مقاطعة Chelan | 007 | Wenatchee | 1899 | Okanogan and Kittitas Counties | A Native American word meaning "deep water", referring to Lake Chelan[18] | 79٬926 | ( 7٬563 كم²) |
2٬920 ميل²|
مقاطعة Clallam | 009 | Port Angeles | 1854 | مقاطعة جفرسون | A Klallam word meaning "brave people" or "the strong people"[19] | 77٬805 | ( 4٬501 كم²) |
1٬738 ميل²|
مقاطعة Clark | 011 | Vancouver | 1845 | Original County | William Clark (1770–1838), the co-captain of the Lewis and Clark Expedition[19] | 516٬779 | ( 1٬629 كم²) |
629 ميل²|
مقاطعة Columbia | 013 | Dayton | 1875 | Walla Walla County | The Columbia River[19] | 4٬026 | ( 2٬251 كم²) |
869 ميل²|
مقاطعة Cowlitz | 015 | Kelso | 1854 | Lewis County | Cowlitz, an Indian tribe[20] | 111٬956 | ( 2٬950 كم²) |
1٬139 ميل²|
مقاطعة Douglas | 017 | Waterville | 1883 | Lincoln County | Stephen A. Douglas (1813–1861), U.S. Senator from Illinois[21] | 44٬192 | ( 4٬711 كم²) |
1٬819 ميل²|
مقاطعة Ferry | 019 | Republic | 1899 | Stevens County | Elisha P. Ferry (1825–1895), 1st Governor of Washington[22] | 7٬448 | ( 5٬708 كم²) |
2٬204 ميل²|
مقاطعة Franklin | 021 | Pasco | 1883 | Whitman County | Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), writer, orator, inventor, and U.S. Founding Father[23] | 98٬678 | ( 3٬217 كم²) |
1٬242 ميل²|
مقاطعة Garfield | 023 | Pomeroy | 1881 | Columbia County | James A. Garfield (1831–1881), 20th U.S. President[23] | 2٬363 | ( 1٬839 كم²) |
710 ميل²|
مقاطعة Grant | 025 | Ephrata | 1909 | Douglas County | Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885), 18th U.S. President[24] | 101٬311 | ( 6٬941 كم²) |
2٬680 ميل²|
مقاطعة Grays Harbor | 027 | Montesano | 1854 | Thurston County | Grays Harbor, a body of water named after explorer and merchant Robert Gray (1755–1806)[24] | 77٬038 | ( 4٬926 كم²) |
1٬902 ميل²|
مقاطعة Island | 029 | Coupeville | 1852 | Thurston County | Consists solely of islands, including Whidbey and Camano islands[25] | 86٬625 | ( 541 كم²) |
209 ميل²|
مقاطعة Jefferson | 031 | Port Townsend | 1852 | Thurston County | Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), 3rd U.S. President and principal author of the Declaration of Independence[25] | 33٬589 | ( 4٬672 كم²) |
1٬804 ميل²|
مقاطعة King | 033 | Seattle | 1852 | Thurston County | William R. King (1786–1853), U.S. Vice President under Franklin Pierce; officially renamed in 2005 after civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. (no relation) (1929–1968)[26] | 2٬266٬789 | ( 5٬478 كم²) |
2٬115 ميل²|
مقاطعة Kitsap | 035 | Port Orchard | 1857 | King and Jefferson Counties | Chief Kitsap (d. 1860), leader of the Suquamish tribe[27] | 277٬673 | ( 1٬023 كم²) |
395 ميل²|
مقاطعة Kittitas | 037 | Ellensburg | 1883 | Yakima County | Yakama word of uncertain meaning, with popular translations ranging from "white chalk" to "land of the plenty"[27] | 45٬189 | ( 5٬949 كم²) |
2٬297 ميل²|
مقاطعة Klickitat | 039 | Goldendale | 1859 | Walla Walla County | Klickitat tribe, also meaning "robber" and "beyond"[27] | 23٬271 | ( 4٬848 كم²) |
1٬872 ميل²|
مقاطعة Lewis | 041 | Chehalis | 1845 | Clark County | Meriwether Lewis (1774–1809), the co-captain of the Lewis and Clark Expedition[28] | 85٬370 | ( 6٬224 كم²) |
2٬403 ميل²|
مقاطعة Lincoln | 043 | Davenport | 1883 | Whitman County | Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), 16th U.S. President[28] | 11٬601 | ( 5٬985 كم²) |
2٬311 ميل²|
مقاطعة Mason | 045 | Shelton | 1854 | King County | Charles H. Mason (1830–1859), 1st Secretary of Washington Territory[29] | 68٬166 | ( 2٬484 كم²) |
959 ميل²|
مقاطعة Okanogan | 047 | Okanogan | 1888 | Stevens County | A Salish word meaning "rendezvous"[30] | 43٬127 | ( 13٬644 كم²) |
5٬268 ميل²|
مقاطعة Pacific | 049 | South Bend | 1851 | Lewis County | The Pacific Ocean[31] | 24٬113 | ( 2٬416 كم²) |
933 ميل²|
مقاطعة Pend Oreille | 051 | Newport | 1911 | Stevens County | The Pend d'Oreille tribe, named by French traders for their "ear bobs"[32] | 14٬179 | ( 3٬626 كم²) |
1٬400 ميل²|
مقاطعة Pierce | 053 | Tacoma | 1852 | Thurston County | Franklin Pierce (1804–1869), 14th U.S. President[32] | 927٬380 | ( 4٬325 كم²) |
1٬670 ميل²|
مقاطعة San Juan | 055 | Friday Harbor | 1873 | مقاطعة واتكوم | San Juan Islands, itself derived from Juan Vicente de Güemes[33] | 18٬662 | ( 451 كم²) |
174 ميل²|
مقاطعة Skagit | 057 | Mount Vernon | 1883 | Whatcom County | The Skagit tribe[34] | 131٬179 | ( 4٬483 كم²) |
1٬731 ميل²|
مقاطعة Skamania | 059 | Stevenson | 1854 | Clark County | A Chinookan word meaning "swift water"[34] | 12٬460 | ( 4٬289 كم²) |
1٬656 ميل²|
مقاطعة Snohomish | 061 | Everett | 1861 | Island and King Counties | The Snohomish tribe, word origin disputed[35] | 840٬079 | ( 5٬405 كم²) |
2٬087 ميل²|
مقاطعة Spokane | 063 | سپوكان | 1879 | مقاطعة ستيڤنز | قبيلة سپوكان | 549٬690 | ( 4٬569 كم²) |
1٬764 ميل²|
مقاطعة Stevens | 065 | Colville | 1863 | مقاطعة والا والا | Isaac Stevens (1818–1862)، أول حكام إقليم واشنطن[36] | 48٬229 | ( 6٬418 كم²) |
2٬478 ميل²|
مقاطعة Thurston | 067 | Olympia | 1852 | Lewis County | Samuel Thurston (1815–1851), the Oregon Territory's first delegate to U.S. Congress[37] | 298٬758 | ( 1٬870 كم²) |
722 ميل²|
مقاطعة واكياكوم | 069 | كاثلامت | 1854 | مقاطعة كاوليتس | واكاياكام، زعيم قبيلة كاثلامت[38] | 4٬688 | ( 684 كم²) |
264 ميل²خريطة الولاية توضح مقاطعة واكياكوم |
مقاطعة Walla Walla | 071 | والا والا | 1854 | مقاطعة سكامانيا | The Walla Walla tribe, also a Nez Percé name for running water[38] | 61٬890 | ( 3٬289 كم²) |
1٬270 ميل²|
مقاطعة Whatcom | 073 | Bellingham | 1854 | Island County | Whatcom, chief of the Nooksack tribe and named for a Nooksack word meaning "noisy water"[39] | 230٬677 | ( 5٬457 كم²) |
2٬107 ميل²|
مقاطعة Whitman | 075 | Colfax | 1871 | Stevens County | Marcus Whitman (1802–1847), a Methodist missionary[40] | 47٬619 | ( 5٬592 كم²) |
2٬159 ميل²|
مقاطعة Yakima | 077 | ياكيما | 1865 | مقاطعة فرگسن (لاغية) | قبيلة ياكيما، تعني "مياه هاربة]" or "big belly"[41] | 257٬001 | ( 11٬127 كم²) |
4٬296 ميل²
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أسماء سابقة لمقاطعات
Four counties changed their name between 1849 and 1925.
- Chehalis County, originally named for the Chehalis people, was renamed Grays Harbor County in 1915.[42][43]
- Sawamish County, originally named for the Sahewamish Native American tribe, was renamed Mason County in 1864.[44]
- Slaughter County, originally named for Lieutenant William A. Slaughter who was killed during the Indian Wars, was renamed Kitsap County shortly after its formation in 1857.[45] The initial proposals for this county called it Madison County or Kitsap County.[46]
- Vancouver County, originally named for George Vancouver, was renamed Clarke County in 1849[47][48] and corrected to Clark in 1925.[49]
مقاطعات سابقة
During Washington's territorial period, Washington split off from an Oregon county, three counties were disestablished, and three split into separate territories.
- Clackamas County, Oregon was established in 1844 and included the land south and east of the Columbia River until Washington Territory was formed in 1853, when the area was no longer organized as a county.[50]
- Spokane County was established in Washington Territory in 1858 until it merged into Stevens County in 1864; it was reestablished in 1879.[51]
- Missoula County was established in Washington Territory in 1860 until it split off with the Idaho Territory in 1863.[51]
- Shoshone County, Idaho County, and Nez Perce County were established in Washington Territory in 1861, and Boise County in 1863, until they split off into the Idaho Territory in March 1863, leaving the current borders of Washington.[51]
- Ferguson County, named for Washington legislator James L. Ferguson, was established on January 23, 1863, from Walla Walla County and dissolved on January 18, 1865. Yakima County was established in its place.[52][53]
- Quillehuyte County was split from Jefferson and Clallam counties in 1868 and returned to those counties a year later before it could be organized.[54]
مقاطعات مقترحة
Several counties were proposed prior to or during the existence of Washington Territory and nine counties were proposed within the first 16 years of Washington's statehood, but none were established.
- The representatives at the Cowlitz Convention of 1851 discussed a proposal to form Columbia Territory, which included a number of new counties in what later became Washington. The next session of the Oregon Territorial Legislature created only one of these counties: Thurston County (which was originally proposed as Simmons County).[55][56]
- Buchanan County was proposed in 1856 as a division of Clark County.[57]
- Proposed counties during Washington's early statehood included Big Bend (1891), Palouse (1891 and 1903), Sherman (1891), Washington (1891), Wenatchee (1893), McKinley (1903), Steptoe (1903), and Coulee (1905).[6]
- Since the 1990s, there have been several proposals for county secession in Washington, largely from rural areas in the major counties of Western Washington. Cedar, Freedom, and Skykomish counties submitted petitions to secede from King and Snohomish counties in 1995 and 1996, with some support in the state legislature to put them to a public referendum.[4][58][59]
انظر أيضاً
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- ^ Brooks, Diane (March 21, 1997). "House OKs Nov. vote on Skykomish County". The Seattle Times. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
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- Meany, Edmond S. (January 1922). "The Cowlitz Convention: Inception of Washington Territory". The Washington Historical Quarterly. Seattle, Washington: University of Washington. XIII (1).
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وصلات خارجية
- Washington State Association of Counties
- Washington County Profiles – Municipal Research and Services Center of Washington
- County officials – Washington Association of County Officials
- National Association of Counties – Find A County