Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] US counties, unincorprated territories
Date: Nov 09, 2001 @ 04:27
Author: m donner ("m donner" <maxivan82@...>)
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well arif this is also very good in a way
now that we get the curiosities direct by list post

it is truly wonderful to find that there are indeed not only counties but
even cities within a city

m


>From: Arif Samad <fHoiberg@...>
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] US counties, unincorprated territories
>Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 11:35:07 -0800 (PST)
>
>I am awake, though my own computer isn't. I am trying
>to get somebody to fix it without paying nor without
>losing any data files (the virus attacked other files,
>but not data files). I can go e-mail at other
>computers, but maintaining my web page isn't possible.
> I have many facts but hasn't been able to post them.
>One of the most interesting post office designation is
>probably where I live. New York City is a city in
>itself though it has five different counties. Though
>the names of other counties are in the city portion of
>the postal address (not the name of the city oddly),
>Queens has four different "cities" in it. Thus in the
>postal address, we put a name that is only a
>neighborhood.
>Supreme court has had many state vs state boundary
>problems over the years. The most famous recently is
>probably Ellis Island between NY and NJ.
>Though both Kalawao County and the Yellowstone
>National Park portion not in a county supposedly has
>disappeared, they still show up in all US atlases on
>the web and many other atlases. So, I am keeping them
>as separate until the atlases change.
>There are three other state with at least one
>independent city. Nevada and Missouri and Maryland
>are the others. I am guessing most of you know what
>cities they are.
>The exclaves of AI are Kloster Grimmenstein and
>Wonnenstein. I was wondering if any maps exist of the
>house enclaves before the 1800s. By the way, a book I
>saw mentioned that part of Pondicherry that was
>jointly administered by France and England was divided
>by country in parcels, though that was probably just a
>property division.
>Arif
>
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