Hey, thanks for the link to the Counties site. That's great!
Washoe County is going to be hard to beat!
Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA
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From: "adamnvillani" <avillani@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 7:37 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Many-adjoined county
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "nj55er" <spookymike@a...>
> wrote:
> > On a related subject, would anyone like to name the U.S. county that
> > borders on the most other U.S. counties? There is a single answer.
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> Okey-doke; I was in the right part of the country with my first
> guess, but I think I've got it: Washoe County, Nevada, home of the
> Biggest Little City in the World, Reno, which I visited back in
> August.
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> It borders Lake and Harney Conties in Oregon, Humboldt, Pershing,
> Churchill, Lyon, and Storey Counties in Nevada, Carson City in
> Nevada, and Placer, Sierra, Nevada, Lassen, and Modoc Counties in
> California. Washoe's border with Lyon County is interesting in that
> they are on opposite sides of a quadripoint near Carson City, and
> then meet up again at a regular border (i.e., one with length) on the
> far side of Storey County. So the total is 12 counties and one county-
> equivalent (Carson City).
>
> Incidentally, are you guys familiar with Marty O'Brien's county-
> counting website? It's here:
> http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/
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> And here's my map of which counties I've visited:
> http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/adamvillani-all.gif
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> Adam
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