Subject: Re: US counties, unincorprated territories<br/>
Date: Nov 07, 2001 @ 17:14<br/>
Author: andrew@AndrewPatton.com (andrew@...)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-165599244">--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., PitHokie &lt;pithokie@y...&gt; wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; Andrew,<br/>
 <br/>
&gt; I thought the county had to<br/>
&gt; agree to any annexation.  Down in Montgomery County an<br/>
&gt; area wanted to incorporate and become the town of<br/>
&gt; Prices Fork, but somehow the county voted against it<br/>
&gt; and the point became moot.  I know this is slightly<br/>
&gt; different, but I ran into similar issues locally with<br/>
&gt; the expansion of a town (Blacksburg) into<br/>
&gt; unincorporated county territory (Montgomery).<br/>
 </span></blockquote>I think there is a difference between town and cities in Virginia. <br/>
Towns are still part of the county, they just run some services such <br/>
as police and schools themselves. Towns are created with the <br/>
permission of the county so changes can only be made with the consent <br/>
of the county. There are very few towns in Virginia<br/>
<br/>
Cities on the other hand unlike towns run everything themselves.  <br/>
Cities are created by the state and the state needs to ok changes <br/>
like annexation. <br/>
<br/>
 <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; DC is another interesting case altogether, as you&#39;ve<br/>
&gt; aluded to.  It was supposed to be a square (diamond)<br/>
&gt; shape, but for some reason gave Virginia&#39;s part back<br/>
&gt; to the state and it later became Arlington and part of<br/>
&gt; Alexandria.<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Any idea if the old borders are still marked anywhere?<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>The borders are still marked althogh the south west border marks the <br/>
border between Arlington County and Fairfax County & divided the city <br/>
of Alexandria into two parts (indicating what area was annexed from <br/>
Fairfax County and which is orginal). the Washington Post had an <br/>
article on these about 6 months ago.</div>