Settlers had begun arriving since 1792 and had swelled to the proper numbers to form a county by the 1800s.

The time was right for Defiance as the population surrounding it grew to the numbers needed to form a new county.

In 1818 New Albany was a large enough to become a county seat and form a new county.

This proposal to form a new county, Playalinda County had some momentum in the early 90s.

It is a mandate from the people of the East End to form a new county.

This part of the backcountry had not yet formed nor joined a county, though a movement was afoot to that purpose.

By 1919, it became the consensus of many locals that they needed to form a county of their own and Garfield County was established.

The options of attaching itself to the state of Arizona or even forming a new county were also considered.

The state granted a petition by local residents to form a new county, Brooks, with Falfurrias as its county seat in 1911.

Perthshire was combined with Kinross-shire to form a parliamentary county, divided into two constituencies: