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Washington County, Utah

Washington County is a county located in the U.S. state of Utah. As of the 2010 census, the population was 138,115,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/49/49053.html )〕 making it the fifth-most populous county in Utah. Its county seat and largest city is St. George.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 The county was created in 1852 and organized in 1856. It was named for the first President of the United States, George Washington.
Washington County experienced the fifth highest job-growth rate in the United States at one point.
Washington County comprises the St. George, UT Metropolitan Statistical Area.
==History==

Established as colonies to grow cotton, before the beginning of the American Civil War, Utah's Dixie as the early settlements in Washington County were known, St. George, Grafton, Duncans Retreat, Adventure, and Northrop were nearly destroyed by the Great Flood of 1862 that followed forty-four days of rainfall in January and February 1862.〔P. Kyle House, Ancient floods, modern hazards: principles and applications of paleoflood hydrology, Volume 1, American Geophysical Union, 2002, p. 297〕 Springdale and Rockville were founded in 1862 by settlers flooded out of Adventure, Northup and other places in the vicinity.

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