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🧑‍🦱 A Native American group 🗺️ A California county 🗣️ A native language
Modoc

Modoc

1 7.9
A county in northeastern California known for its high desert and lava beds
  • proper noun
  • /ˈmoʊdɒk/
: Condado de Modoc
  • She knows that Bobby will not change, and that if they are to become, in some sense, one, she must alter what she is: a bumpkin, her lifetime spent in the vast, sparsely populated high cattle-and-timber country of Modoc County, far up north where California and Nevada shoulder Oregon.
  • Modoc County

Examples

  • The best thing was that nobody got hurt, although Mrs. Symonds, who’s the head teller at the Modoc County Federal Savings & Loan on Elvis Street, said she was sure it had cost her a couple of years off her life.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • Any chance you gonna be again soon? "I think it was about then that I began to suspect the truth about the Modoc County Federal Savings &;

    Fiction book (1998)

  • The landscapes of Modoc County are known for their breathtaking beauty and diverse wildlife.

  • Visitors often explore the hiking trails that Modoc County offers, experiencing its vast natural wonders.

  • Local events in Modoc County celebrate the area's rich history and culture, attracting both residents and tourists.

Surface Forms

Modoc main

Etymology

The county Modoc takes its name from the Modoc people who lived in that area, so the place name is a way of saying 'land of the Modoc' and remembering the people who belong there.