Kyle, as a faithful watcher from Canada who’s a geography nerd myself I just want to say how lovely and well-put together your videos are. They are really well-paced, not needlessly flashy, and give lots of time to the beautiful maps. Thank you for doing what you do.
Lee County, Virginia would be a good candidate for this series. It is the westernmost county in the state, and the entire county is further west than the westernmost point of West Virginia. The westernmost community in the county (and therefore the state), Wheeler, is closer to NINE other state capitals than it is to its own capital in Richmond, which is 414 miles away by car. They are: 1. Frankfort, KY (165 miles) 2. Charleston, WV (228 miles) 3. Nashville, TN (242 miles) 4. Atlanta, GA (275 miles) 5. Columbia, SC (293 miles) 6. Indianapolis, IN (325 miles) 7. Columbus, OH (326 miles) 8. Raleigh, NC (353 miles) 9. Montgomery, AL (405 miles)
@@autonomouscollective2599 if you go due south out of Columbus and keep going until you hit the ocean, you’ll go through, in order: Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. You’d hit the Gulf of Mexico just east of Cedar Key, FL. And you completely avoid West Virginia.
7:05: This picture is of San Luis Obispo (and Cal Poly!), CA, not Bishop. The image probably came up in a search because it was taken from Bishop's Peak.
Actually, Lake of the Woods is sometimes only the 7th largest lake in the U.S., as the size of the Great Salt Lake varies as to whether or not it is larger than Lake of the Woods. Though, currently Lake of the Woods is larger.
Heres a county you might find interesting. Its my home county of St Clair County, Alabama. Its a county older than the state and has two seats, one in Ashville, the other in Pell City. This is due to the county's mountainous geography
Unlike the rest of Monroe County, Dry Tortugas is in the Central Time Zone! Fort Jefferson is the largest brick masonry structure in the Americas. Fort Jefferson was built in 1847. The idea for the location for military use dates back to the 1820s when Commodore David Porter inspected Dry Tortugas to look for a spot to counter piracy, but he wasn't impressed. However, the government wanted to build a lighthouse there and so they did in 1826. In 1829, it was inspected by Josiah Tattnall III and he was impressed with what he saw and said Dry Tortugas would constitute the advance post for a defense of the Gulf Coast. Robert E Lee shared this opinion and convinced the government to make it a military reservation. The Overseas Highway of the Florida Keys is quite interesting. It used to be the right-of-way of the Overseas Railroad! As the Panama Canal was constructed, in 1905, Henry Flagler (who helped develop the east coast of Florida) wanted to link Key West with the mainland, as Key West is the US's closest deep-water port to the canal and he could not only take advantage of Cuban and Latin American trade, but the opening of the canal allowed significant trade possibilities with the West Coast. It was completed in 1912 but was heavily damaged in 1935 during a Category 5 hurricane which led to the railway selling it to the state who then created the Overseas Highway.
I just drove through Cimarron County, Oklahoma. I drove into the very northwestern point of Texas, which was just someone’s farm it appeared, because the state line is totally unmarked there. The New Moklatex triple point.
I've driven the Oklahoma panhandle several times, going between northern New Mexico and Michigan, and visiting a friend in eastern Oklahoma on the way. I quite like that part of the drive. There aren't many interesting sights (the Gloss Mountains are an exception) or places, but it's pleasantly remote.
i have been to the northwest corner of texas it is a marked monument that is accessible without trespassing, as is the NM-OK-TX tripoint (which is a separate site ~2 miles away from the northwest corner of texas)
The Kentucky Bend is odd, and because it is home to so few both Kentucky and Tennessee have discussed making it a wildlife preserve to avoid offering services there. Probably the right thing in the long run.
I'm so glad you mentioned Fulton County, KY. I'm from the Lexington area, and I've never been to that part of the state. It's always interested me, though, because of how you have to leave the state to get to the other part of the county.
I've always wondered how the mail would work out there. Would people just have their mail delivered from Fulton, or from Tennessee, or do they just have to get a PO Box in Tennessee?
The thing about Queens County is that it used to be even bigger, as what's now Nassau County used to be part of Queens! The name of Nassau County originated from an old name for Long Island, which was at one time named Nassau, after the Dutch family of King William III of England, the House of Nassau, itself named after the German town of Nassau. In 1784, following the American Revolutionary War, the Town of Hempstead was split in two, when Patriots in the northern part formed the new Town of North Hempstead, leaving Loyalist majorities in the Town of Hempstead. About 1787, a new Queens County Courthouse was erected (and later completed) in the new Town of North Hempstead, near present-day Mineola. Around 1874, the seat of county government was moved to Long Island City from Mineola. As early as 1875, representatives of the three eastern towns began advocating the separation of the three eastern towns from Queens. In 1898, the western portion of Queens County became a borough of the City of Greater New York, leaving the eastern portion a part of Queens County but not the Borough of Queens. The areas excluded from the city's consolidation included all of the Town of North Hempstead, all of the Town of Oyster Bay, and most of the Town of Hempstead. In 1899, following approval from the state legislature, the three towns were separated from Queens County, and the new county of Nassau was constituted.
9:30 There is also Randolph County, Illinois where people in Kaskaskia have to go into Missouri across the old Mississippi River channel then cross the Mississippi River into Chester, Illinois.
Longtime fan of ur channel thanks for all the entertainment over the years. I'm from Jo Daviess county, IL most northwest county in IL touching WI and IA it's in the "driftless region" of the midwest so along the Mississippi the roads get pretty steep, we even have a ski resort! I live 6 miles away from Bellevue, IA but I would have to drive a total of 39 miles to get there because I'm nowhere near a bridge!
another fantastic video, kyle. actually working on a project with key west transit right now. the population data for monroe county sure is interesting. keep up the great work
Kyle, your content fits perfectly into my map-loving brain! And your style of delivery is perfectly suited to each topic you explore! Lastly, I appreciate all your comments about the maps that your viewers share with us! You express sincere gratitude for their efforts!
Son of an Accomack County, VA, native here. Love to see the Eastern Shore of VA on here. Fun fact: Eastville and Northampton County are home to the oldest continuous court records in the nation.
It’s really cool to hear you talk about the eastern shore of Virginia…I have lots of family that live on Tangier and smith island, as well as a few of the small towns that dot that area
You should do Arthur County in Nebraska. It's in the middle of the Sandhills, and it has only one town: the town of Arthur. By an incredible coincidence, it's the county seat! Like many Sandhills counties, this county has more cattle than people.
I think I'm the one who gave him the idea on the OK county. I just find it cool that CO and TX and KS and NM actually aren't that far from each other at that point.
Love maps and always have. Also love trivial information. Thanks for keeping me informed. I’m sure a lot of work goes into these videos. I appreciate it.
You should also cover the City and County of Honolulu some time. It has the largest "diameter" (distance between two parts of the country) of any US county. It includes not just the island of Oahu but various atolls and reef extending to and including Midway Island.
Thank you for all your interesting and well put together videos, Kyle. Until you came along, I didn’t realize that other people love geography as much as I do.
2:11)Somewhere it was written that Congress saddled Oklahoma with the Cimarron Strip because other states did not want it. 3:08) It might have been in a "Doc Ford" novel where Key West was said to be a sunny place for shady people.
Me and my girlfriend just completed a 9 state road trip and we enjoy listening to your videos as background noise when music gets boring! I’m more of a geography nerd than her but she enjoys your content as well! Road-trip started in Carlsbad, New Mexico.. Thru the Grand Canyon , up to the Shasta Mountains in California and the Redwood forest , through Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming hot springs, Denver, Co and back to home in New Mexico!
Always cool to see Lake of the Woods talked about, even if it’s usually just about the NW Angle(understandably) so it’s refreshing hearing someone talk about other parts of our small county :)
The western part of Monroe County FL is called Ten Thousand Islands because as the Everglades ends and transitions into the Gulf of Mexico there isn’t a single shoreline or beach - instead the land kind just breaks apart into smaller and smaller islands, over 10,000 of them. Really cool to see from a plane when flying into MIA or FLL. Almost nobody lives in this area because it’s either swamp or mangroves and about the most mosquito infested place around. The only reason anyone is even there is because the fishing and wildlife are amazing. I have some videos on my channel of fishing down there. And yes several strong hurricanes have made landfall here, but you don’t hear much about them because with very little population or structures it doesn’t make the news, instead Miami, the Keys or Naples gets all the attention.
I don't know how I managed to not know about Inyo County at all, especially since it's super interesting in many ways and I'm kind of a map-maniac. Great video!
I'm sure you know that another example you could have mentioned in this category is Whatcom County, WA which includes Point Roberts--accessible by land only by passing through Canada and going through border checks twice. (Possibly it was in another video however).
Slight correction - Alburgh, VT is accessible by road to other parts of Vermont as well as NY. US Route 2 traverses the Alburgh tongue as well as North and South Hero Island
Leelanau county in Michigan is pretty cool. I worked/lived there for a while. It’s surrounded by the west arm of grand traverse bay on the east and then has Lake Michigan on the west. The sleeping bear dunes national lakeshore is located there, which is a fun place to travel to. It’s also big into growing cherries. I worked at Leelanau state park as a park ranger at the very tip of the peninsula. You look out from the campground/lighthouse and can see beaver island. Tons of freighters pass by there, as you can see they’re going to Charlevoix (you can also see the charlevoix cement plant from the campground - people always thought it was a nuclear power plant as there used to be one further up the coast from Charlevoix)
I love the outer banks and Dare county! Thought a lot about settling down there whenever I get to retire. Especially the southern part of Hatteras, Buxton and Avon is beautiful
There is another ice road connecting an exclave of a county in the US. Madeline Island is connected to Bayfield (Bayfield Co, WI) by ice road once Lake Superior freezes over sufficently to allow vehicle traffic. The route is typically marked by discarded Christmas Trees. Do the separate counties that make up New Ork City have their own Sheriffs departments?
Little correction Alburgh, VT is accessible by road from the islands, mainland VT, and NY. Also South Hero not the name of that island its call Grand Isle and South Hero is a town located at the bottom 3rd of Grand Isle
I'm so glad you included Dare County, North Carolina which is where I live and grew up on because a lot of people in other parts of the country don't seem so familiar with it, other than learning about it from the Outer Banks Netflix show which is very inaccurate. I agree that it's very unique being a strand of barrier islands along the coast with the swampy mainlands on the other side. Shark attacks are actually very rare here though there's been a few sightings of sharks during daylight hours and I've never heard of alligator attacks around here since they are really in the mainland part of the county so it's very isolated there but if that actually happens, I won't be surprised.
About Inyo County, CA, you mentioned things I knew, but never realized were in that particular county. Very interesting. My mom had a cousin who lived in Bishop, and he was very well-known and loved there.
I lived in the Norfolk exclave in Brookline last year, and I thought it was cool that I could walk across the width of the county in about 30 minutes. Also Boston itself has some interesting geography as well, as the Allston neighborhood is separated from the rest of Boston and basically only connected by the Mass Turnpike. Boston has also added a lot of land by building land in the harbor, so the coastline looks completely different from when it was first founded.
One unique county is Carbon County Montana. There are parts of the county, namely Bighorn Reservoir, that can only be reached by passing through Wyoming before entering back to Carbon County MT. Love the love for geography you bring to all your videos. Keep up the great work 😊
Here's another interesting fact about Monroe County, Florida. Monroe County is officially in two different time zones. Dry Tortugas National Park is actually inside the Central Time Zone, but unofficially observes the Eastern Time Zone to stay in sync with Key West. Monroe County is the only county on the Florida Peninsula where a portion of the county lies in the Central Time Zone. So Monroe County is truly one of the most unusual counties in the US!
Always excited to see my county of Norfolk, MA represented. I wished you touched upon Brookline being the OG NIMBY town in the US. The town voted against being annexed by Boston way back in 1873; which explains Boston's odd shape.
Would love more examples Of city/county split oddities. Like smallest city that crosses multiple counties. In Oregon, the vast majority of Portland is in multnomah, but then there are small chunks in Clackamas and Washington Counties. Lake Oswego isn’t an especially large suburb of Portland, however it spans all three of those counties too, except most it is located within Clackamas County.
Native Staten Island here. It used to be named Borough of Richmond (after the county name), but was changed in 1975 to Borough of Staten Island, but the county is still Richmond. I don't think the county name is used much anymore.
For your next vid on county oddities, I can think of two in Washington State. The first is Island County, which comprises Whidbey and Camano Islands. These two islands are not connected to each other by bridge or ferry. In fact, both are connected by bridges to other counties (Whidbey Island connects to Skagit County via the Deception Pass Bridge, and Camano Island connects to Snohomish County via WA-532). Next is Pierce County, made up of two parts separated by the Tacoma Narrows section of Puget Sound. The eastern portion is home tome to Mount Rainier, while the western portion on the peninsula tends to be more affluent.
Nice job Kyle! I've been to NW Angle several times, to photo the "Northern Most Point" sign with a new car. As well "Southern Most Point" sign in FL. It's a pretty dull ride up through Canada but the issue is getting back out of MN. You have to call Canada, to get a code with only one phone at a call box so if there are 20 fisherman coming back to the US (MN) you have to wait. The phone does't always work which exacerbates the process. It took me over an hour, with only one person in front of me due to phone issues. But if you skip this step, without the code they won't let you back into the US (MN) without a hassle as you have entered Canada illegally. Can you hear me now Canada... As well in Inyo County CA is Alabama Hills, just below Mt Whitney and West of Lone Pine, a huge area for filming westerns TV & Movies. And just to the North is Manzanar former Interment center during WWII. I've photographed Ancient Bristlecones near Big Pine as well, up about 11,000', that's a walk, Lol. Safe Travels!
One other city-county merger you forgot to mention is Carson City, Nevada; until 1969, it was the county seat of Ormsby County, then the state abolished the county and assigned its area to Carson City. Thus, it is now considered an independent city.
Interesting video, but at 7:45 you say Mt Whitney is highest point in the us, I know that you know that is incorrect since you state it correctly earlier in the same section.
Drove through the Ok panhandle one time because my buddies and I wanted to see that part of the country and we were going to Colorado for a ski trip. When a person says there is nothing to see where they’re from, they mean that in terms of attractions or landmarks. When you drive through the panhandle there are massive stretches where you look in every direction and see nothing in the most literal definition of the word.
Could you do a vid about why there are far more counties in some states than others? (Particularly how there are more in the south and Midwest) I have heard several explanations, but the most credible were based on how the settlement and population of the westward expansion progressed re: transportation infrastructure, population density, etc, and/or how a surfeit of counties secured both more federal funding (post offices, etc) and sinecures (sheffifs, land comissioners, etc- in east texas, it was said that a single term as a sherif made a man set for life, so naturally...)
@@nitedreamer23 Yeah! Vs where I'm at, Washington state... I think we (off the top of my head) have 21. I'd sure dig it if there was a well researched and quality vid on the subject... AND, a good trivia question would be something like: 'What U.S. state has the most counties? Which has the least?' (I have no idea, but I'm about to look it up!)
Kyle, as a faithful watcher from Canada who’s a geography nerd myself I just want to say how lovely and well-put together your videos are. They are really well-paced, not needlessly flashy, and give lots of time to the beautiful maps. Thank you for doing what you do.
Thank you for the kind words
Lee County, Virginia would be a good candidate for this series. It is the westernmost county in the state, and the entire county is further west than the westernmost point of West Virginia.
The westernmost community in the county (and therefore the state), Wheeler, is closer to NINE other state capitals than it is to its own capital in Richmond, which is 414 miles away by car. They are:
1. Frankfort, KY (165 miles)
2. Charleston, WV (228 miles)
3. Nashville, TN (242 miles)
4. Atlanta, GA (275 miles)
5. Columbia, SC (293 miles)
6. Indianapolis, IN (325 miles)
7. Columbus, OH (326 miles)
8. Raleigh, NC (353 miles)
9. Montgomery, AL (405 miles)
One more interesting note is that the county seat of Jonesville is further west than Detroit.
Wow this is interesting! They should change states lol
@@Nalololol unfortunately Lee County doesn’t border West Virginia, otherwise it should change states.
@@autonomouscollective2599 you mean west Virginia?
@@autonomouscollective2599 if you go due south out of Columbus and keep going until you hit the ocean, you’ll go through, in order: Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. You’d hit the Gulf of Mexico just east of Cedar Key, FL. And you completely avoid West Virginia.
It is interesting that the monuments for the northernmost and southernmost points in the contiguous U.S. are similar in design.
Minnesota built there in 2000s key west built in the 70s
Key West's monument says "The Conch Republic ". The one in the Northwest Angle should say "The Walleye Republic."
Intentional
Elm point MN
Additional small
Uninhabited enclave in lake of the woods county
@@mmckenzie9367I can’t tell if you’re referencing something or just trying to be cringe
7:05: This picture is of San Luis Obispo (and Cal Poly!), CA, not Bishop. The image probably came up in a search because it was taken from Bishop's Peak.
Actually, Lake of the Woods is sometimes only the 7th largest lake in the U.S., as the size of the Great Salt Lake varies as to whether or not it is larger than Lake of the Woods. Though, currently Lake of the Woods is larger.
You covered all the records and amazing attractions of Inyo Co. Another great one. Thx Kyle!
Heres a county you might find interesting. Its my home county of St Clair County, Alabama. Its a county older than the state and has two seats, one in Ashville, the other in Pell City. This is due to the county's mountainous geography
Cool ❤
Many counties in the south have two County seats mainly due to segregation.
yes, this is not unique. arkansas and mississippi both have 10 counties with two seats
Unlike the rest of Monroe County, Dry Tortugas is in the Central Time Zone! Fort Jefferson is the largest brick masonry structure in the Americas. Fort Jefferson was built in 1847. The idea for the location for military use dates back to the 1820s when Commodore David Porter inspected Dry Tortugas to look for a spot to counter piracy, but he wasn't impressed. However, the government wanted to build a lighthouse there and so they did in 1826. In 1829, it was inspected by Josiah Tattnall III and he was impressed with what he saw and said Dry Tortugas would constitute the advance post for a defense of the Gulf Coast. Robert E Lee shared this opinion and convinced the government to make it a military reservation.
The Overseas Highway of the Florida Keys is quite interesting. It used to be the right-of-way of the Overseas Railroad! As the Panama Canal was constructed, in 1905, Henry Flagler (who helped develop the east coast of Florida) wanted to link Key West with the mainland, as Key West is the US's closest deep-water port to the canal and he could not only take advantage of Cuban and Latin American trade, but the opening of the canal allowed significant trade possibilities with the West Coast. It was completed in 1912 but was heavily damaged in 1935 during a Category 5 hurricane which led to the railway selling it to the state who then created the Overseas Highway.
I just drove through Cimarron County, Oklahoma. I drove into the very northwestern point of Texas, which was just someone’s farm it appeared, because the state line is totally unmarked there. The New Moklatex triple point.
I've driven the Oklahoma panhandle several times, going between northern New Mexico and Michigan, and visiting a friend in eastern Oklahoma on the way. I quite like that part of the drive. There aren't many interesting sights (the Gloss Mountains are an exception) or places, but it's pleasantly remote.
i have been to the northwest corner of texas it is a marked monument that is accessible without trespassing, as is the NM-OK-TX tripoint (which is a separate site ~2 miles away from the northwest corner of texas)
The Kentucky Bend is odd, and because it is home to so few both Kentucky and Tennessee have discussed making it a wildlife preserve to avoid offering services there. Probably the right thing in the long run.
I'm so glad you mentioned Fulton County, KY. I'm from the Lexington area, and I've never been to that part of the state. It's always interested me, though, because of how you have to leave the state to get to the other part of the county.
I've always wondered how the mail would work out there. Would people just have their mail delivered from Fulton, or from Tennessee, or do they just have to get a PO Box in Tennessee?
I'm from Lexington, too. I have been to Fulton Co. but never to the Bend. I'd love to visit some day, though
The thing about Queens County is that it used to be even bigger, as what's now Nassau County used to be part of Queens! The name of Nassau County originated from an old name for Long Island, which was at one time named Nassau, after the Dutch family of King William III of England, the House of Nassau, itself named after the German town of Nassau. In 1784, following the American Revolutionary War, the Town of Hempstead was split in two, when Patriots in the northern part formed the new Town of North Hempstead, leaving Loyalist majorities in the Town of Hempstead. About 1787, a new Queens County Courthouse was erected (and later completed) in the new Town of North Hempstead, near present-day Mineola.
Around 1874, the seat of county government was moved to Long Island City from Mineola. As early as 1875, representatives of the three eastern towns began advocating the separation of the three eastern towns from Queens. In 1898, the western portion of Queens County became a borough of the City of Greater New York, leaving the eastern portion a part of Queens County but not the Borough of Queens. The areas excluded from the city's consolidation included all of the Town of North Hempstead, all of the Town of Oyster Bay, and most of the Town of Hempstead. In 1899, following approval from the state legislature, the three towns were separated from Queens County, and the new county of Nassau was constituted.
Appreciate you mentioning the five counties of NYC
9:30 There is also Randolph County, Illinois where people in Kaskaskia have to go into Missouri across the old Mississippi River channel then cross the Mississippi River into Chester, Illinois.
Longtime fan of ur channel thanks for all the entertainment over the years. I'm from Jo Daviess county, IL most northwest county in IL touching WI and IA it's in the "driftless region" of the midwest so along the Mississippi the roads get pretty steep, we even have a ski resort! I live 6 miles away from Bellevue, IA but I would have to drive a total of 39 miles to get there because I'm nowhere near a bridge!
another fantastic video, kyle. actually working on a project with key west transit right now. the population data for monroe county sure is interesting. keep up the great work
Kyle, your content fits perfectly into my map-loving brain! And your style of delivery is perfectly suited to each topic you explore! Lastly, I appreciate all your comments about the maps that your viewers share with us! You express sincere gratitude for their efforts!
Whatcom County, WA has a portion (Point Roberts) that is also only accessible by road through Canada.
You should visit and do a video on Plaquemines Parish, LA................it's such a unique place
Great content; nicely presented as usual. Wonderful that you haven't given in to doing ads.
Son of an Accomack County, VA, native here. Love to see the Eastern Shore of VA on here. Fun fact: Eastville and Northampton County are home to the oldest continuous court records in the nation.
This was super fun, thanks so much :)
02:29 Black Mesa... Hearing it out loud here sent chills up my spine 😅
I have been there... and yes there is more there than just a park...
@@firefly9838what u talking about?
So glad you covered Cimarron County. Such a contrast driving from east to west.
Love this series! Thanks, Kyle!
It’s really cool to hear you talk about the eastern shore of Virginia…I have lots of family that live on Tangier and smith island, as well as a few of the small towns that dot that area
Love this series Kyle! Glad to see my home state of Kentucky get a shoutout. Excited for the next installment!
Greta video as usual Kyle! Love the santana record in the back!
You should do Arthur County in Nebraska. It's in the middle of the Sandhills, and it has only one town: the town of Arthur. By an incredible coincidence, it's the county seat! Like many Sandhills counties, this county has more cattle than people.
I think I'm the one who gave him the idea on the OK county. I just find it cool that CO and TX and KS and NM actually aren't that far from each other at that point.
I think this episode is even better than the previous 'Interesting Counties' one! Love this topic. Thanks Kyle!
this is your best content kyle keep it up you’re the best 👍🏻
What scares me about myself is how much I enjoyed this.
You do a wonderful job of reminding me that our country's wildly varied geography is just another reason to love it!
Love maps and always have. Also love trivial information. Thanks for keeping me informed. I’m sure a lot of work goes into these videos. I appreciate it.
A lot of people don’t know that the highest and lowest points in the continental US are only about 85 miles apart. Crazy to think about
and there is ultra-marathon between them
Elite work as usual Kyle!👏
You should also cover the City and County of Honolulu some time. It has the largest "diameter" (distance between two parts of the country) of any US county. It includes not just the island of Oahu but various atolls and reef extending to and including Midway Island.
Thank you for all your interesting and well put together videos, Kyle. Until you came along, I didn’t realize that other people love geography as much as I do.
2:11)Somewhere it was written that Congress saddled Oklahoma with the Cimarron Strip because other states did not want it.
3:08) It might have been in a "Doc Ford" novel where Key West was said to be a sunny place for shady people.
Another great production, keep them coming❤❤
Awesome as always!!
I found it quite interesting that Nye county, Nevada is similar in size to my country of the Netherlands which has 17.5 million inhabitants.
Me and my girlfriend just completed a 9 state road trip and we enjoy listening to your videos as background noise when music gets boring! I’m more of a geography nerd than her but she enjoys your content as well! Road-trip started in Carlsbad, New Mexico.. Thru the Grand Canyon , up to the Shasta Mountains in California and the Redwood forest , through Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming hot springs, Denver, Co and back to home in New Mexico!
I used to live way up in northern Franklin County, VT and regularly drove through Grand Isle County to get to Burlington. Such a gorgeous drive!
I don't know if you've done it already, but Tipton County TN has 2 exclaves on the AR side of the Mississippi river.
I love the strange and interesting! Keep it up!
I grinned throughout this super interesting vid. Please keep em coming.
Great video! I really enjoyed watching!
Always cool to see Lake of the Woods talked about, even if it’s usually just about the NW Angle(understandably) so it’s refreshing hearing someone talk about other parts of our small county :)
This was a super-interesting video. So many unusual things in the country!
The western part of Monroe County FL is called Ten Thousand Islands because as the Everglades ends and transitions into the Gulf of Mexico there isn’t a single shoreline or beach - instead the land kind just breaks apart into smaller and smaller islands, over 10,000 of them. Really cool to see from a plane when flying into MIA or FLL. Almost nobody lives in this area because it’s either swamp or mangroves and about the most mosquito infested place around. The only reason anyone is even there is because the fishing and wildlife are amazing. I have some videos on my channel of fishing down there. And yes several strong hurricanes have made landfall here, but you don’t hear much about them because with very little population or structures it doesn’t make the news, instead Miami, the Keys or Naples gets all the attention.
I don't know how I managed to not know about Inyo County at all, especially since it's super interesting in many ways and I'm kind of a map-maniac.
Great video!
I'm sure you know that another example you could have mentioned in this category is Whatcom County, WA which includes Point Roberts--accessible by land only by passing through Canada and going through border checks twice. (Possibly it was in another video however).
Slight correction - Alburgh, VT is accessible by road to other parts of Vermont as well as NY. US Route 2 traverses the Alburgh tongue as well as North and South Hero Island
Thank you for mentioning the esva we are often forgotten
You’re always teaching me something Kyle and I like that. Thanks!
Leelanau county in Michigan is pretty cool. I worked/lived there for a while. It’s surrounded by the west arm of grand traverse bay on the east and then has Lake Michigan on the west. The sleeping bear dunes national lakeshore is located there, which is a fun place to travel to. It’s also big into growing cherries. I worked at Leelanau state park as a park ranger at the very tip of the peninsula. You look out from the campground/lighthouse and can see beaver island. Tons of freighters pass by there, as you can see they’re going to Charlevoix (you can also see the charlevoix cement plant from the campground - people always thought it was a nuclear power plant as there used to be one further up the coast from Charlevoix)
Another very interesting layout of unusual counties. Gracias!
Kyle spoiling us with another great video
I love the outer banks and Dare county! Thought a lot about settling down there whenever I get to retire. Especially the southern part of Hatteras, Buxton and Avon is beautiful
You should do a part 3 on counties that have been dissolved, like Armstrong SD
These sort of videos are my favorite! I can’t get enough crazy borders/arbitrary lines! 🔥💯
There is another ice road connecting an exclave of a county in the US. Madeline Island is connected to Bayfield (Bayfield Co, WI) by ice road once Lake Superior freezes over sufficently to allow vehicle traffic. The route is typically marked by discarded Christmas Trees.
Do the separate counties that make up New Ork City have their own Sheriffs departments?
You continue to be endlessly interesting. All that variety, just fascinating. So I guess I'm proud to be one more Geography Nerd!
Would love to see more in this series!
I really enjoy your channel. Always interesting!
Interesting information, thanks. 💥
A fascinating video. Great job!
Very nice. Thank you. (Please don't ever change your intro graphic and sound effect...)
Great video for people interested in geography quirks. I like it.
Little correction Alburgh, VT is accessible by road from the islands, mainland VT, and NY. Also South Hero not the name of that island its call Grand Isle and South Hero is a town located at the bottom 3rd of Grand Isle
Yeah, I came into the comments to mention this accessibility correction, but you beat me to it. Still a great video as always though.
I'm so glad you included Dare County, North Carolina which is where I live and grew up on because a lot of people in other parts of the country don't seem so familiar with it, other than learning about it from the Outer Banks Netflix show which is very inaccurate. I agree that it's very unique being a strand of barrier islands along the coast with the swampy mainlands on the other side. Shark attacks are actually very rare here though there's been a few sightings of sharks during daylight hours and I've never heard of alligator attacks around here since they are really in the mainland part of the county so it's very isolated there but if that actually happens, I won't be surprised.
The Champlain Islands (Grand Isle Co.) is a fantastic place for summer biking :)
Another fascinating video!
Great video! That was very interesting.
Lake of Woods county also has another border crossing point at Baudette via international bridge over Rainy River
Awesome - thanks for doing this.
About Inyo County, CA, you mentioned things I knew, but never realized were in that particular county. Very interesting. My mom had a cousin who lived in Bishop, and he was very well-known and loved there.
I lived in the Norfolk exclave in Brookline last year, and I thought it was cool that I could walk across the width of the county in about 30 minutes. Also Boston itself has some interesting geography as well, as the Allston neighborhood is separated from the rest of Boston and basically only connected by the Mass Turnpike. Boston has also added a lot of land by building land in the harbor, so the coastline looks completely different from when it was first founded.
One unique county is Carbon County Montana. There are parts of the county, namely Bighorn Reservoir, that can only be reached by passing through Wyoming before entering back to Carbon County MT.
Love the love for geography you bring to all your videos. Keep up the great work 😊
As someone born and raised in Virginia Beach, I was very excited to see Northampton County and Dare County included
Funny I came to comment about how we aren't a county but bordering Eastern shore and OBX it's ALMOST like VB is a part of the video😂
Here's another interesting fact about Monroe County, Florida. Monroe County is officially in two different time zones. Dry Tortugas National Park is actually inside the Central Time Zone, but unofficially observes the Eastern Time Zone to stay in sync with Key West. Monroe County is the only county on the Florida Peninsula where a portion of the county lies in the Central Time Zone. So Monroe County is truly one of the most unusual counties in the US!
Another great one
Always excited to see my county of Norfolk, MA represented. I wished you touched upon Brookline being the OG NIMBY town in the US. The town voted against being annexed by Boston way back in 1873; which explains Boston's odd shape.
Have taken northern route via kenora Ontario
Very scenic alternative route of a "few" miles more North of lake of the woods
I love to visit county courthouses. Been to 202!
Thank you, this was fun.
Would love more examples
Of city/county split oddities. Like smallest city that crosses multiple counties. In Oregon, the vast majority of Portland is in multnomah, but then there are small chunks in Clackamas and Washington Counties. Lake Oswego isn’t an especially large suburb of Portland, however it spans all three of those counties too, except most it is located within Clackamas County.
Native Staten Island here. It used to be named Borough of Richmond (after the county name), but was changed in 1975 to Borough of Staten Island, but the county is still Richmond. I don't think the county name is used much anymore.
Great vid, love this series! Can I ask about the Visalia woodcutting in the background?
For your next vid on county oddities, I can think of two in Washington State. The first is Island County, which comprises Whidbey and Camano Islands. These two islands are not connected to each other by bridge or ferry. In fact, both are connected by bridges to other counties (Whidbey Island connects to Skagit County via the Deception Pass Bridge, and Camano Island connects to Snohomish County via WA-532). Next is Pierce County, made up of two parts separated by the Tacoma Narrows section of Puget Sound. The eastern portion is home tome to Mount Rainier, while the western portion on the peninsula tends to be more affluent.
9:25 need to go through Nebraska to get to Carter Lake, IA
Nice job Kyle! I've been to NW Angle several times, to photo the "Northern Most Point" sign with a new car. As well "Southern Most Point" sign in FL. It's a pretty dull ride up through Canada but the issue is getting back out of MN. You have to call Canada, to get a code with only one phone at a call box so if there are 20 fisherman coming back to the US (MN) you have to wait. The phone does't always work which exacerbates the process. It took me over an hour, with only one person in front of me due to phone issues. But if you skip this step, without the code they won't let you back into the US (MN) without a hassle as you have entered Canada illegally. Can you hear me now Canada... As well in Inyo County CA is Alabama Hills, just below Mt Whitney and West of Lone Pine, a huge area for filming westerns TV & Movies. And just to the North is Manzanar former Interment center during WWII. I've photographed Ancient Bristlecones near Big Pine as well, up about 11,000', that's a walk, Lol. Safe Travels!
One other city-county merger you forgot to mention is Carson City, Nevada; until 1969, it was the county seat of Ormsby County, then the state abolished the county and assigned its area to Carson City. Thus, it is now considered an independent city.
Interesting video, but at 7:45 you say Mt Whitney is highest point in the us, I know that you know that is incorrect since you state it correctly earlier in the same section.
Drove through the Ok panhandle one time because my buddies and I wanted to see that part of the country and we were going to Colorado for a ski trip. When a person says there is nothing to see where they’re from, they mean that in terms of attractions or landmarks. When you drive through the panhandle there are massive stretches where you look in every direction and see nothing in the most literal definition of the word.
In New York City you go to court in whatever county/borough you had the offense in.
Great video but you have an image of Provincetown MA at 7:47 when you are talking abt Inyo County.
No, it says MA is 3205 miles away
Could you do a vid about why there are far more counties in some states than others? (Particularly how there are more in the south and Midwest)
I have heard several explanations, but the most credible were based on how the settlement and population of the westward expansion progressed re: transportation infrastructure, population density, etc, and/or how a surfeit of counties secured both more federal funding (post offices, etc) and sinecures (sheffifs, land comissioners, etc- in east texas, it was said that a single term as a sherif made a man set for life, so naturally...)
Offhand, Georgia has a ridiculous number of counties. Good observation.
Offhand, Georgia has a ridiculous number of counties. Good observation.
Offhand, Georgia has a ridiculous number of counties. Good observation.
Offhand, Georgia has a ridiculous number of counties. Good observation.
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Yeah! Vs where I'm at, Washington state... I think we (off the top of my head) have 21.
I'd sure dig it if there was a well researched and quality vid on the subject... AND, a good trivia question would be something like: 'What U.S. state has the most counties? Which has the least?'
(I have no idea, but I'm about to look it up!)