Former Jacksonville Mayor and U.S. Senator Duncan U. Fletcher obtained a federal grant to build the school which bears his name. It opened September 20, 1937 for grades 7-12. The schoolâs nickname, Senators, also comes from their namesake.
The word county is used in 48 of the 50 states. While Louisiana uses the term parish and Alaska uses the word borough. Including those, there are 3,077 counties in the US, an average of 62 counties per state. The state with the fewest counties is Delaware (three), and the state with the most is Texas (254). In many states, counties are subdivided into townships or towns and may contain other independent, self-governing municipalities.
A Brief History of Georgia Counties. Nationwide, there are just over 3,000 counties in the fifty states. The number and size of counties varies considerably from state to state. Georgia has 159 counties, second only to Texas, which has 254. Every part of Georgia-even the barrier islands along the Atlantic Ocean-falls within a county. This means that no matter where you live in Georgia, you reside in a county.