The phrase "adjoining counties" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to counties that are next to or share a border with each other.
Example: "The new policy will affect not only our county but also the adjoining counties that rely on our resources."
Alternatives: "neighboring counties" or "bordering counties".
The rest come from courts in adjoining counties.
Half of the families sur veyed live in Chicago and the rest reside in adjoining counties.
Map of a part of Eastern Virginia : including portions of Spotsylvania Co. and adjoining counties / compiled by Capt.
While some local officials have praised Mrs. Orzechowski's work, they have also expressed concern that Newburgh's shelter is attracting the homeless from adjoining counties, and even other states.
That is the case in the merger between the Peninsula Community Foundation and the Community Foundation Silicon Valley in California, which serve the adjoining counties of San Mateo and Santa Clara and support a variety of charitable efforts.
Even so, state lawmakers from the adjoining counties in Nevada and Utah, Senator Dean A. Rhoads of Elko and Senator Ron Allen of Tooele, said they believed that town leaders would adopt a plan and that their legislatures would approve it.
The penitentiary houses inmates with sentences of up to a year, while the adjoining county jail houses prisoners awaiting sentencing.
The Berkshire Downs supported numerous prehistoric settlements linked by ridgeways that led particularly to the focus of Stonehenge in the adjoining county of Wiltshire.
As Marquette grew and expanded into an adjoining county, visiting potential borrowers became more arduous.But it was the changing regulatory climate, rather than Marquette's growth, that put an end to its assiduity.
The commissioner gave the officers six months to comply with a state law that says they must live in the county where they work or in an adjoining county.
First of all, Mr. Margiotta said, an appearance ticket for a criminal violation must be served personally, and can be served only in the county where the court sits, or in an adjoining county.
