andrew
this is actually quite an extraordinary nicety

until you mentioned the peculiar power of independent cities to slurp up
adjacent lands
i had imagined independent cities were just another rather ordinary variant
on the basic county idea
no odder as tertiary entities that parishes in la or boroughs in ak

i mean
apart from the fact that they could coexist with counties in 4 odd states

but this is a whole nother dynamic

so if or whenever you can elaborate further here as well
please do

m

>From: "Andrew T. Patton" <andrew@...>
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] US counties, unincorprated territories
>Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 20:19:26 -0500
>
>On Tue, 6 Nov 2001 09:38:28 -0800 (PST), you wrote:
>
> >The weird exception is Virginia,
> >where when one enters a town or city (incorporated),
> >they actually leave the county! So technically, a
> >city like Roanoke, which is completely surrounded by
> >Roanoke County, is technically an enclave.
>
>When I moved to Virginia, I found this to be very weird. I now live
>next to a section of Fairfax County (that has an enclaved part called
>Fairfax City but which is not part of Fairfax County) called Chantilly
>which is not really a municipality rather just the name of the Post
>Office.
>
>It is also interesting that Cities in Virginia have the power to annex
>land from nearby counties. Alexandria use to be the South part of the
>Virginia Section of DC, But after it was returned back to Virginia it
>annexed land from Fairfax County that doubled its area.
>
>pithokie@..., I assume from your email address that you are a
>student or alumni of Virginia Tech. I graduated VT in '96.
>
>-Andrew
>--
>Andrew T. Patton WWW: http://www.AndrewPatton.com
>Fairfax, VA, USA E-Mail: andrew@...

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