Definition of jurisdiction for English Language Learners. : 1  the power or right to make judgments about the law, to arrest and punish criminals, etc. : 2  the power or right to govern an area. : 3  an area within which a particular system of laws is used.
The Grand Mound Development Plan (the Plan) is a. response to the rapid growth in the last several years. The Con-. federated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation (Tribe) initiated this. planning effort at the request of Thurston County (County) to start. a community conversation and develop a vision for the future.
Serpent Mound in rural Adams County, Ohio, is one of the premier Native American earthworks in the hemisphere. Its pristine flowing form was enhanced by major reconstruction in the 1880s. That reconstruction now appears to have been the second time in its long life that Serpent Mound has shed some of its skin.