And now, the employment news from Jefferson County:

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Employment and wages in all the Jefferson counties in 2016 https://go.usa.gov/xNH6f #BLSdata

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[Yonnie3]

1. Surprisingly there is no Jefferson County in Virginia :) n/t

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. I noticed that. Well, at least not now is there a

Jefferson County in Virginia. If you set the WABAC Machine to a time before June 20, 1863, however, you would find a Jefferson County in Virginia. I just looked this up:

Jefferson County, West Virginia

Jefferson County is the easternmost county of the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2010 census the population was 53,498. Its county seat is Charles Town. The county was founded in 1801.
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History

Formation

Jefferson County was formed from Berkeley County in 1801 because the citizens of southeastern Berkeley county felt they had to travel too far to the county seat of Martinsburg. Charles Washington, the founder of Charles Town and brother to George Washington petitioned for a new county to be formed. It was named for Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and third President of the United States. Virginia previously had a Jefferson County, which is now part of Kentucky. Accordingly, in the State records of Virginia, there will be listings for Jefferson County from 1780-1792 and Jefferson County from 1801-1863, neither of which is still in Virginia.

What??? Virginia has had two Jefferson Counties? That's right. Sherman, set the WABAC Machine for....

Jefferson County, Kentucky

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History

Jefferson County was organized in 1780 and one of the first three counties formed out of the original Kentucky County, which was still part of Virginia at the time (the others being Fayette and Lincoln). The county is named for Thomas Jefferson, who was governor of Virginia at the time.

[Yonnie3]

3. Yes. Virginia was large in the early days.

Ok, I grant Jefferson County emeritus status in Virginia.

To further complicate matters, the area I live in is often referred to as Jefferson CountRy.


I guess then, we need the employment data for 1780-1792 and 1801-1863.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. They're working on a state:

Jefferson (proposed Pacific state)

This article is about a proposed U.S. state on the Pacific coast. For other proposed states with the same name, see Jefferson (proposed Mountain state) and Jefferson (proposed Southern state).



The State of Jefferson is a proposed U.S. state that would span the contiguous, mostly rural area of southern Oregon and Northern California, where several attempts to separate from Oregon and California, respectively, have taken place.

This region on the Pacific Coast is the most famous of several that have sought to adopt the name of Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States. Jefferson, who sent the Lewis and Clark expedition into the Pacific Northwest in 1803, envisioned the establishment of an independent nation in the western portion of North America that he dubbed the "Republic of the Pacific"; hence, the association of his name with regional autonomy. The independence movement, rather than statehood, is known as Cascadia.

The name "Jefferson" has also been used for other proposed states: the name was proposed in the 19th century for Jefferson Territory (roughly modern Colorado), as well as in 1915 in a bill in the Texas legislature for a proposed state that would be created from the Texas Panhandle region.



Darker areas show the State of Jefferson, as proposed by Gilbert Gable in 1941. Modern versions of the movement usually include the lighter areas as well.

I had to look this up, but if Jefferson ever did become a state, the highest point in California would remain unchanged.

For Jefferson:

Elevation
• Highest point Mount Shasta
14,179 ft (4316.58 m)

For California:

Elevation
• Highest point Mount Whitney
14,505 ft (4,421.0 m)