--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "adamnvillani"
<avillani@u...> wrote:

> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "acroorca2002"

<orc@o...> wrote:

> > welcome at last adam
> > after 22 months of lurking
> > a new bp record
> > & thanx for the interesting question too
>
> Sure, no problem. I actually wasn't actively lurking for a
> substantial fraction of that 22 months.

hahaha
well then your record merits an asterisk too for its effortlessness
& it will be hard to beat either way
so good luck to any remaining lurkers who may try

> > precisely right on all counts
> > 1864 nye county is formed
> > 1905 tonopah becomes its 3rd county seat
> > 1913 your boundary change is enacted
>
> Thanks... inspired by your ability to find the dates on those, I
> poked around on the web and found the Nevada legislation on

county

> boundaries.

wow
the actual legislation would be a treat if you could point me to it
for i have only been gleaning my data from secondary sources

> Interesting stuff. In california, most county formation
> stopped about 100 years ago, too. I wonder if the importance of
> county boundaries (and thus the gradual decline of changes in

same)

> is linked with the rise of better transportation and

communication

> networks.
>
> Adam

astute observation imo

& similarly wonderful to catch sight of its flip side
which is that the lines of transportation & communication
themselves have also tended to crystallize & become
geographically fixed in pretty much the same manner & time
frame as the county lines
but along lines that tend to run perpendicular to them

so you really have a pair of offset interlocking networks