Then you got New England where county government is very minimalistic used, and Connecticut has basically abolished the county government entirely. I also heard a fact involving San Bernardino county that despite size in large population about 75% of the county population lives within an area of roughly the size of Connecticut
Oprah- You get a county, you get a county, you get a county. All those county’s to pick from and the creators of Dukes of Hazard still needed to make up 2 new ones for their show lol.
But it also has the most interesting county - Echols. Georgia can banish people, but its constitution forbids banishment outside state lines. So they banish you from all but Echols County. Most people who get banished just choose to leave the state instead of live there.
If I'm not mistaken, Georgia law stated that a county couldn't be larger than a circuit rider could travel in a day, which is why there are so many counties in the northwest where the state joins NC and TN, at the foothills of the Appalachian mountains.
What's funny is Arizona doesn't observe daylight saving time. But the Navajo Nation does. Mostly because it carries over into western NM and they want the entire Res on one time. But then the Hopi Nation, completely enclosed by the Navajo Nation doesn't do DST like the rest of AZ. So you'll have an area where it's 1:00, enclosed within 2:00, enclosed within 1:00, from April to October.
It really amazes me how empty Nye County really is. 85% of the counties population lives in Pahrump, in the very southern end of the county. When you drive through this county on Highway 95 there is absolutely nothing until you reach Beatty and Tonopah, the county seat. What’s funny is that Tonopah is the most isolated county seat in the United States. There is no gas station for over 100 miles in every direction leaving Tonopah.
I grew up in San Bernardino County. The distances between many spots-particularly driving-wise-definitely gave me a particular perspective, especially now that I no longer live in SoCal or even in the state (much to my sorrow).
It would be interesting to do the top 5 of each state. The largest one I've heard of in the East is Aroostook County in Maine, which is huge, larger than some states. Also St. Lawrence and Suffolk Counties in New York State are very big.
As a former Arizonan, Coconino County was probably my favorite to visit. The forested mountains around the Flagstaff and Williams area were about paradise.
I was born and raised in San Bernardino County, in Chino, CA...the SW tip.... The Post Office in Earp, CA holds a record for being furthest from the county seat....228 miles from San Bernardino.
Nye County, Nevada looks like a nuclear cloud, kinda cool since all the atomic bombs were tested in the area back in the day. Fun fact: Most of San Bernardino County population is in the lower left corner where the boot is.
I find it intriguing to look at a map of Nevada. You can't get from southern Nye County to the county seat of Tonopah without crossing Esmeralda County. Likewise, it's hard to get from northern Esmerelda County to Goldfield, the county seat, without going through Tonopah.
Whatever state has boroughs as a form of local or municipal government. I submit Pennsylvania, followed by New Jersey. Now, how many states have townships?
@@revinhatol Alaska has boroughs in lieu of counties. New York's 5 boroughs are also counties with different names than the boroughs. Three independent cities in Virginia that were created by merging smaller cities and surrounding counties are divided into boroughs. Etc. Looked it up, Pennsylvania has 956 boroughs. New Jersey has 252. Municipal form of government, keep in mind.
@@centredoorplugsthornton4112 Not Queens and the Bronx. The borough and county have the same name in both cases. I have a question. Do you know if there are any other US cities with more than one county contained within it? I can’t think of one off the top of my head.
While watching, I realized I've extensively driven through all of these counties over the years, particularly Coconino (since I went to college in Flagstaff). The west is big. And empty.
Aroostook County, Maine is the largest county east of the Mississippi and it’s larger than Connecticut and Rhode Island combined with less than 80,000 people. I think that’s a really interesting fact you missed in this video.
I once heard that counties in the East, South, and Midwest were sized so that citizens could travel to the county seat (often toward the center of the county) within a day traveling by horse.
Do you or will you have one for the smallest counties too? For instance, New York County...and it still has an interstate freeway going through part of it.
I’m surprised there were only 3 from Arizona. The average county size in Arizona is around 7,500 square miles, while in Nevada, it’s around 6,000 square miles.
We have only eight counties in CT, none of which serve any actual purpose. Our counties are geographical boundaries only, with no form of government whatsoever.
Counties were created in New England during colonial times but remained very weak with most local power concentrated in the town. Unlike the rest of the U.S., all of New England except for stretches of the north wilderness areas is part of an incorporated municipality and there is no concept of unincorporated land as there is in the rest of the U.S. The town or city handles all local services; counties in New England have over time withered away to the point where in most of New England they are just lines on a map, and in the remainder of New England function at the most as judicial circuit boundaries.
San Bernardino County is the size of West Virginia, and even has more people than WV, maybe even a little larger. That's crazy to me. The county I live in has around 7K people, but it's only 197 square miles. Tiny compared to these counties.
You know, big counties in the US are often very rural. However, some are their own metropolitan or micropolitan area which they have multiple small urban areas. As for S.B. County, CA, it have a huge urban area of the Inland Empire, well a portion of it other than Riverside County, CA.
Riverside County is huge too, approximately equal in distance of San Bernardino County east west, although a lot smaller north south. 26th overall, but still bigger than the three smallest states (CT, RI, or DE).
Living in Needles, California, going to the county seat in San Bernardino is like driving into three different states to get there. (San Bernardino County)
I believe the largest east of the Mississippi is Aroostook County in northern Maine. It’s larger than the states of Rhode Island and Connecticut combined and has a population of about 67,000 people.
Make it a series. The first pair deal with county sizes geographically (West & East) the next pair are largest county sizes by population (West & East) the final pair are the richest counties (West &East) lastly is a video on “oddball” counties across the U.S.
#1 Aroostook County, ME - 6,671 sq mi (#47 overall) #2 St. Louis County, MN - 6,247 sq mi (#54 overall) #3 Piscataquis County, ME - 3,960 sq mi (#123 overall) #4 Somerset County, ME - 3,924 sq mi (#124 overall) #5 Penobscot County, ME - 3,397 sq mi (#146 overall)
I've driven through most of these counties, and they truly exemplify the old Texan expression "there's nothing for miles and miles but miles and miles."
I did not hear you say that these were just in the contiguous state, I believe that a county in Alaska is quite big. It is Yukkon-Koyukuk Census Area which is 145,575.6 square miles. That is a little bigger than 20,000 sq mi.
An Alaska census area has no government of its own other than municipalities within it. It is a line on a map, with the sole purpose of facilitating census administration within that part of Alaska not contained in one of its organized boroughs (the Unorganized Borough), with all services normally provided by counties/boroughs/parishes elsewhere instead provided directly by the state of Alaska. Yukon-Koyukuk is but the largest of these. It provides no services to and exercises no authority over its residents. So, the actual largest "county" in Alaska and the U.S. (that is, a subdivision of a state, having a functioning government) would be the North Slope Borough at nearly 100,000 sq mi, an area larger than the majority of U.S. states
Connecticut is going with 9 Councils of Governments as their county equivalent for Census purposes starting in 2024. While there hasn’t been county governments since 1960, it will now relegate the counties to little more than just historic and cultural places
My car broke down last summer on my trip home from college in Harney County, about 90 miles outside of burns. It may be only 10 on the list, but it felt huge that day.
Counties here in Georgia are so uniquely run. They can have wildly different policies, education systems, laws, and law enforcement. It really is puzzling how in some states, counties are virtually meaningless and in others, it's almost like tiny states within a state.
Alaska is the only state where the borough government is the same as a county government in the lower 48. The borough I live in is 25,000 square miles which about the same size as W Virginia. It is not the largest borough in Alaska. When I moved here there was about 17,000 people in it.
For Nebraska is Cherry County, its area is 6,008 miles squared, and it is located near the panhandle of the state and is named after Lt. Samuel A. Cherry. And found in 1883.
I have a feeling that people might have read the title as America’s largest countries & thought this was a video talking about Canada,the US,Brazil & Argentina.
so, because we call them boroughs and not counties, alaska doesn't make the list? tbh, i didn't expect you to include our boroughs: they're huge! the Unorganized Borough is 320,000 sq miles. but, it's "Unorganized" because there isn't actually a county/borough government. so we'll ignore that as it's not equivalent to a county, which makes the list look like this: 1. North Slope Borough - pop 10,603 - 88,824 sq mi 2. Northwest Arctic Borough - pop 7,361 - 35,663 sq mi 3. Matanuska-Susitna Borough - pop 115,239 - 24,707 sq mi 4. Lake and Peninsula Borough - pop 1,331 - 23,832 sq mi 5. San Bernadino County, CA - pop 2,181,654 - 20,105 sq mi 6. Coconino County, Arizona - pop 145,101 - 18,661 sq mi 7. Nye County, Nevada - pop 51,591 - 18,159 sq mi 8. Elko County, Nevada - pop 53,702 - 17,202 sq mi 9. Kenai Peninsula Borough - pop 61,223 - 16,017 sq mi 10. Mohave County, Arizona - pop 213,267 - 13,469 sq mi i enjoy your channel. and i can see why you wouldn't want half the list to be alaska (even though i disagree :-) but it would've been cool to note that somewhere, especially since folks are turning to you for information they didn't have before.
I love this Country but I really wish we could see all these issues we are now dealing with in our modern era and find a way to be ADAPTIVE and utilize ingenuity to overcome these challenges. We are stuck using a system that clearly isn't working. Even if people fully agree on change it's taking so long to make anything happen (BTW it's so rare for that to happen. Almost no one is fully agreeing lately. So things take even that much longer or never happen in our lifetime) *I just wish we could improve our local government, system, requirements for change and for addressing important current events. Right now it feels like we are stuck with a system that was meant to work when the world moved at a MUCH SLOWER pace..
It's probably bigger than almost everything east of the Mississippi but those western states have massive counties that make Cherry look small. But I've always thought Cherry county was weird because it's so much bigger than any other county in Nebraska, I've always wondered why it was so big.
@@anthonyl1506I believe the reason Cherry County is so big is because of its low population. It only has about 5,000 people. The real question is why the counties surrounding it were not combined to be one big county too, because many of them make the list for the least populated counties, a lot of them having less than a thousand people.
Our area in Apache County, Concho, is unincorporated, but has, by my figuring, about 1,500 square miles in its postal delivery area. That´s about the size of Rhode Island. Also by my figuring, it has about 2,400 people. But, if you look at the U.S. Census figures, they say our population is zero (0), since they only count the census designated place, and nobody there returned their census forms. Welcome to the country!
Louisiana has counties in the conventional sense, they're just not called that. That they're called parishes was a decision made in 1845, and it's to honor the Catholic history of the state. Alaska is really the only state that truly doesn't have counties like the rest of the states, but given its size and sparse population, it makes sense. No point in having a local government for hundreds of thousands of square miles of largely uninhabitable tundra
Texas c has 254 counties but I actually have a case for a 255th. It will never happen because Texas doesn't allow consoliated city/counties. My suggestion would be the City and County of Katy. The City of Katy and the Greater Katy region are both split between three counties: Harris, Fort Bend,and Waller. The Greater Katy region is largely unincorporated because of annexation laws being wacked. If the Greater Katy region became a city/county, it's population would be around 400,000.
Pueblo county, CO is twice the size of Rhode Island. Pueblo County has 150,000 people in it. Rhode Island has 1.2 million. In Rhode Island, you can't open you mouth without getting an elbow in it.
Then you got New England where county government is very minimalistic used, and Connecticut has basically abolished the county government entirely.
I also heard a fact involving San Bernardino county that despite size in large population about 75% of the county population lives within an area of roughly the size of Connecticut
The state of Georgia has an obscene number of counties. Many of them are literally bankrupt. 159 counties is way too many
Im sure if he were to do a smallest county list, a lot of them would be in Georgia.
Oprah- You get a county, you get a county, you get a county.
All those county’s to pick from and the creators of Dukes of Hazard still needed to make up 2 new ones for their show lol.
So does Kentucky. We have 120 of them. Most are small in geographical size.
But it also has the most interesting county - Echols. Georgia can banish people, but its constitution forbids banishment outside state lines. So they banish you from all but Echols County. Most people who get banished just choose to leave the state instead of live there.
If I'm not mistaken, Georgia law stated that a county couldn't be larger than a circuit rider could travel in a day, which is why there are so many counties in the northwest where the state joins NC and TN, at the foothills of the Appalachian mountains.
When you realize that you know some of these cities from driving some rural routes in American Truck Simulator lol.
California’s three largest counties, San Bernardino, Inyo, and Kern all border each each other. Very interesting.
My favorite thing is how there is one straight line for San Bern, Kern and SLO counties northern borders.
@@JL-sm6cg that is cool!
Yeah, but everything is so far apart you don't know each other.
That is kinda funny. Apache County is home to the Navajo Nation, two distinct tribes.
Navajo County is next door, so I guess they called dibs.
That´s OK, because Navajo County is home to, yes, some of the Apache Nation.
What's funny is Arizona doesn't observe daylight saving time. But the Navajo Nation does. Mostly because it carries over into western NM and they want the entire Res on one time. But then the Hopi Nation, completely enclosed by the Navajo Nation doesn't do DST like the rest of AZ. So you'll have an area where it's 1:00, enclosed within 2:00, enclosed within 1:00, from April to October.
It really amazes me how empty Nye County really is. 85% of the counties population lives in Pahrump, in the very southern end of the county. When you drive through this county on Highway 95 there is absolutely nothing until you reach Beatty and Tonopah, the county seat. What’s funny is that Tonopah is the most isolated county seat in the United States. There is no gas station for over 100 miles in every direction leaving Tonopah.
It is also one of the largest unincorporated county seats, as it has 2,500 people in it, and around 1,000 close to it
Pleasure seeing you here, InterstateKyle! I’ve driven through Nye County on US 95 and it truly is like another planet outside of the small towns!
Art Bell the overnight radio host was based in Pahrump. He referred to his home county as the Kingdom of Nye..
Does Bill Nye the Science Guy live there?
Art Bell comes to mind
Awesome video! Always love your content. Video Suggestions: The Great River Road, US Route 51 and US Route 412 would be interesting to learn about.
I grew up in San Bernardino County. The distances between many spots-particularly driving-wise-definitely gave me a particular perspective, especially now that I no longer live in SoCal or even in the state (much to my sorrow).
A good idea for this would be the largest county in each state!
Nye County, Nevada's county seat, Tonopah, is pronounced TOW-no-pah, not tow-NO-pah.
Wow, San Bernardino County is huge. It’s bigger than many states.
It would be interesting to do the top 5 of each state. The largest one I've heard of in the East is Aroostook County in Maine, which is huge, larger than some states. Also St. Lawrence and Suffolk Counties in New York State are very big.
As a former Arizonan, Coconino County was probably my favorite to visit. The forested mountains around the Flagstaff and Williams area were about paradise.
I was born and raised in San Bernardino County, in Chino, CA...the SW tip....
The Post Office in Earp, CA holds a record for being furthest from the county seat....228 miles from San Bernardino.
Your map shows Mammoth Lakes in Inyo County, but the town is in Mono County to the north. Nice video, though!
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Glad you enjoy it!
Nye County, Nevada looks like a nuclear cloud, kinda cool since all the atomic bombs were tested in the area back in the day.
Fun fact: Most of San Bernardino County population is in the lower left corner where the boot is.
I didn't know Bill Nye has a whole county named for him!
I find it intriguing to look at a map of Nevada. You can't get from southern Nye County to the county seat of Tonopah without crossing Esmeralda County. Likewise, it's hard to get from northern Esmerelda County to Goldfield, the county seat, without going through Tonopah.
Fun fact: Clark County, Nevada is completely surrounded by five of the counties mentioned here, so half of them.
Yes indeed with the largest county to its South.
I've got a remarkable riddle for you, no pity:
_"What state has more boroughs than New York City?"_
Whatever state has boroughs as a form of local or municipal government. I submit Pennsylvania, followed by New Jersey.
Now, how many states have townships?
@@centredoorplugsthornton4112 Accepted, it can also be applied to *ALASKA*
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@@revinhatol Alaska has boroughs in lieu of counties. New York's 5 boroughs are also counties with different names than the boroughs.
Three independent cities in Virginia that were created by merging smaller cities and surrounding counties are divided into boroughs. Etc.
Looked it up, Pennsylvania has 956 boroughs. New Jersey has 252. Municipal form of government, keep in mind.
@@centredoorplugsthornton4112 Not Queens and the Bronx. The borough and county have the same name in both cases. I have a question. Do you know if there are any other US cities with more than one county contained within it? I can’t think of one off the top of my head.
While watching, I realized I've extensively driven through all of these counties over the years, particularly Coconino (since I went to college in Flagstaff). The west is big. And empty.
Aroostook County, Maine is the largest county east of the Mississippi and it’s larger than Connecticut and Rhode Island combined with less than 80,000 people. I think that’s a really interesting fact you missed in this video.
I like how Nye County is kind of in the shape of a mining hammer.
Very appropriate, as they hold the Nevada State Mining Championship during their annual Jim Butler Days celebration over the US Labor Day weekend.
I always thought of it as a mushroom cloud
I once heard that counties in the East, South, and Midwest were sized so that citizens could travel to the county seat (often toward the center of the county) within a day traveling by horse.
How you pronounce Tonopah is the funniest I've heard since Google maps!
Nice video Broski
Do you or will you have one for the smallest counties too? For instance, New York County...and it still has an interstate freeway going through part of it.
He made a video of the smallest counties like a year ago
Already a video on the channel!
New York County is Manhattan, NYC.
@@Geotpfeach borough in nyc has its own county
@@mattdajediYes. Hence why I pointed out that Manhattan is New York County.
I’m surprised there were only 3 from Arizona. The average county size in Arizona is around 7,500 square miles, while in Nevada, it’s around 6,000 square miles.
We have only eight counties in CT, none of which serve any actual purpose. Our counties are geographical boundaries only, with no form of government whatsoever.
Counties were created in New England during colonial times but remained very weak with most local power concentrated in the town. Unlike the rest of the U.S., all of New England except for stretches of the north wilderness areas is part of an incorporated municipality and there is no concept of unincorporated land as there is in the rest of the U.S. The town or city handles all local services; counties in New England have over time withered away to the point where in most of New England they are just lines on a map, and in the remainder of New England function at the most as judicial circuit boundaries.
Counties in CT are basically for census purposes only.
@@EndTheSimpademic now, they are just lines on a map. Counties WERE a thing in New England 200 years ago.
@@EndTheSimpademic now, not even that. Census taking in New England is town based nowadays
San Bernardino County is the size of West Virginia, and even has more people than WV, maybe even a little larger. That's crazy to me. The county I live in has around 7K people, but it's only 197 square miles. Tiny compared to these counties.
Nicholas County, KY?
You know, big counties in the US are often very rural. However, some are their own metropolitan or micropolitan area which they have multiple small urban areas. As for S.B. County, CA, it have a huge urban area of the Inland Empire, well a portion of it other than Riverside County, CA.
Riverside County is huge too, approximately equal in distance of San Bernardino County east west, although a lot smaller north south. 26th overall, but still bigger than the three smallest states (CT, RI, or DE).
Living in Needles, California, going to the county seat in San Bernardino is like driving into three different states to get there. (San Bernardino County)
Don’t they have a satellite office
It is to laugh.
I think it would be interesting to know which counties are largest east of the Mississippi River.
It’s either st’louis county if you count Minnesota or aroostook county (maine) if you don’t count Minnesota
Dividing the major city from the county sounds like a great idea.
I feel like you should make a second video of the largest counties east of the Mississippi River since they are older
Claiming something is the best “east of ___” is just coping that the eastern half of the country isn’t as grand as out west
@@MrChilili you don't know much about geography, do you?
I believe the largest east of the Mississippi is Aroostook County in northern Maine. It’s larger than the states of Rhode Island and Connecticut combined and has a population of about 67,000 people.
Make it a series. The first pair deal with county sizes geographically (West & East) the next pair are largest county sizes by population (West & East) the final pair are the richest counties (West &East) lastly is a video on “oddball” counties across the U.S.
#1 Aroostook County, ME - 6,671 sq mi
(#47 overall)
#2 St. Louis County, MN - 6,247 sq mi
(#54 overall)
#3 Piscataquis County, ME - 3,960 sq mi
(#123 overall)
#4 Somerset County, ME - 3,924 sq mi
(#124 overall)
#5 Penobscot County, ME - 3,397 sq mi
(#146 overall)
How about a video explaining towns, Districts, Boroughs, and Cities?
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I doubt you'll ever end up talking about Tonopah, Nevada again, but it's pronounced Toe-Nuh-Paw.
I've driven through most of these counties, and they truly exemplify the old Texan expression "there's nothing for miles and miles but miles and miles."
I did not hear you say that these were just in the contiguous state, I believe that a county in Alaska is quite big. It is Yukkon-Koyukuk Census Area which is 145,575.6 square miles. That is a little bigger than 20,000 sq mi.
I think he did not include it because technically Alaska does not have counties
@@jeremyholt8671 Alaska has five organized boroughs that would qualify for the list, the largest being North Slope at over 88,000 sq mi.
An Alaska census area has no government of its own other than municipalities within it. It is a line on a map, with the sole purpose of facilitating census administration within that part of Alaska not contained in one of its organized boroughs (the Unorganized Borough), with all services normally provided by counties/boroughs/parishes elsewhere instead provided directly by the state of Alaska. Yukon-Koyukuk is but the largest of these. It provides no services to and exercises no authority over its residents.
So, the actual largest "county" in Alaska and the U.S. (that is, a subdivision of a state, having a functioning government) would be the North Slope Borough at nearly 100,000 sq mi, an area larger than the majority of U.S. states
@@jeremyholt8671 Thanks
@@craigrohn9938 Thanks for your very thorough explanation and I stand corrected.
A county in Michigan's Lower Peninsula is generally 24 miles x 24 miles
Connecticut is going with 9 Councils of Governments as their county equivalent for Census purposes starting in 2024. While there hasn’t been county governments since 1960, it will now relegate the counties to little more than just historic and cultural places
My car broke down last summer on my trip home from college in Harney County, about 90 miles outside of burns. It may be only 10 on the list, but it felt huge that day.
I always wondered what a township was when i lived in VA. Makes sense now
Counties here in Georgia are so uniquely run. They can have wildly different policies, education systems, laws, and law enforcement. It really is puzzling how in some states, counties are virtually meaningless and in others, it's almost like tiny states within a state.
Alaska is the only state where the borough government is the same as a county government in the lower 48. The borough I live in is 25,000 square miles which about the same size as W Virginia. It is not the largest borough in Alaska. When I moved here there was about 17,000 people in it.
That’s crazy! Alaska is so huge!
For Nebraska is Cherry County, its area is 6,008 miles squared, and it is located near the panhandle of the state and is named after Lt. Samuel A. Cherry. And found in 1883.
I have a feeling that people might have read the title as America’s largest countries & thought this was a video talking about Canada,the US,Brazil & Argentina.
What state has the fewest counties? Clue, its 3 counties are divided into sectors called hundreds, outside of cities and towns.
Maricopa county is large and contains almost the entire Phoenix metro
Question: How many adjacent counties have the same name, such as Escambia county, Fl. and Escambia county, Al. ?
Bristol county MA and Bristol county RI do as well.
Maine has a huge county. 😮
Nobody ever talks about Alaska's county equivalents, the boroughs.
Ware County, Georgia is in fact the largest county, largest city and largest state east of the Mississippi River
so, because we call them boroughs and not counties, alaska doesn't make the list?
tbh, i didn't expect you to include our boroughs: they're huge! the Unorganized Borough is 320,000 sq miles. but, it's "Unorganized" because there isn't actually a county/borough government. so we'll ignore that as it's not equivalent to a county, which makes the list look like this:
1. North Slope Borough - pop 10,603 - 88,824 sq mi
2. Northwest Arctic Borough - pop 7,361 - 35,663 sq mi
3. Matanuska-Susitna Borough - pop 115,239 - 24,707 sq mi
4. Lake and Peninsula Borough - pop 1,331 - 23,832 sq mi
5. San Bernadino County, CA - pop 2,181,654 - 20,105 sq mi
6. Coconino County, Arizona - pop 145,101 - 18,661 sq mi
7. Nye County, Nevada - pop 51,591 - 18,159 sq mi
8. Elko County, Nevada - pop 53,702 - 17,202 sq mi
9. Kenai Peninsula Borough - pop 61,223 - 16,017 sq mi
10. Mohave County, Arizona - pop 213,267 - 13,469 sq mi
i enjoy your channel. and i can see why you wouldn't want half the list to be alaska (even though i disagree :-) but it would've been cool to note that somewhere, especially since folks are turning to you for information they didn't have before.
I love this Country but I really wish we could see all these issues we are now dealing with in our modern era and find a way to be ADAPTIVE and utilize ingenuity to overcome these challenges. We are stuck using a system that clearly isn't working. Even if people fully agree on change it's taking so long to make anything happen (BTW it's so rare for that to happen. Almost no one is fully agreeing lately. So things take even that much longer or never happen in our lifetime) *I just wish we could improve our local government, system, requirements for change and for addressing important current events. Right now it feels like we are stuck with a system that was meant to work when the world moved at a MUCH SLOWER pace..
Warren county is where I live and that’s our courthouse in the beginning 🎉🎉
I wonder how close Cherry County Nebraska came to the top 10? Top 20 maybe?
It's probably bigger than almost everything east of the Mississippi but those western states have massive counties that make Cherry look small.
But I've always thought Cherry county was weird because it's so much bigger than any other county in Nebraska, I've always wondered why it was so big.
Cherry County is 44th largest nationwide.
@@anthonyl1506I believe the reason Cherry County is so big is because of its low population. It only has about 5,000 people. The real question is why the counties surrounding it were not combined to be one big county too, because many of them make the list for the least populated counties, a lot of them having less than a thousand people.
I love counties and geography
126th! Would love to see a listing of top ten largest countries east of Mississippi River! Yea! Hahahahaha! 😇
Bullhead City is bigger than Kingman.
It always fascinated me how Arizona only has 12 counties
Not to be “that” guy, but it actually has 15 I believe
Sweetwater County Wyoming looks like Utah sideways.
Our area in Apache County, Concho, is unincorporated, but has, by my figuring, about 1,500 square miles in its postal delivery area. That´s about the size of Rhode Island. Also by my figuring, it has about 2,400 people. But, if you look at the U.S. Census figures, they say our population is zero (0), since they only count the census designated place, and nobody there returned their census forms. Welcome to the country!
Louisiana has counties in the conventional sense, they're just not called that. That they're called parishes was a decision made in 1845, and it's to honor the Catholic history of the state. Alaska is really the only state that truly doesn't have counties like the rest of the states, but given its size and sparse population, it makes sense. No point in having a local government for hundreds of thousands of square miles of largely uninhabitable tundra
Texas c has 254 counties but I actually have a case for a 255th. It will never happen because Texas doesn't allow consoliated city/counties. My suggestion would be the City and County of Katy. The City of Katy and the Greater Katy region are both split between three counties: Harris, Fort Bend,and Waller. The Greater Katy region is largely unincorporated because of annexation laws being wacked. If the Greater Katy region became a city/county, it's population would be around 400,000.
Pueblo county, CO is twice the size of Rhode Island. Pueblo County has 150,000 people in it. Rhode Island has 1.2 million. In Rhode Island, you can't open you mouth without getting an elbow in it.
I've been in every county on this list 😁
If you succeed to open a portal, Sedona Arizona is where it will take you
You forgot brewster county tx
Oh u right big bro mb
Alaska?
Per State in future
That is pronounced TO-nah-pah, sir
Tx has about 200 co. Such a waste. It made sense 200yrs ago. But now Tx could be much better with 6-10 counties
Do we get a face reveal at 100k subs??
I already did a face reveal, join my discord
thought *Duvall* would B on da list
It's special for it's overlay with Jacksonville. But, yes
@@JeffTaylor-tr7my
thought JAX waz da countay seat
Harney and Malheur counties are a waste of space in Oregon.
Connecticut abolished its counties
"TONE-a-pah", Not "to-NA-pah"
Needles is not in the west of San Bernardino County. I like you, bro, but that's not geography. Please proofread.
How about the 10 largest counties east of the Mississippi?
no
Elocution.
Uh... Tonopah is pronounced "Toe-no-pa", no Toe-NO-pa".
It's not that deep
Tonopah, Nevada
Toe-no-paw not Toe-nope-uh
Great thanks king🙏🙏saved my career with that one
@@BeaverGeography lol. Us native Nevadans are sensitive about our shit.
@@haiderodes ok
@@haiderodesgrow up
Texas has 254 counties
and they’re all tiny
America is not a country. You meant to say the United States.
You probably thought this was a video talking about Canada,The USA,Brazil & Argentina.
Do OTC Hemorrhoid remedies really work? I’m tempted to try one because I don’t eat enough fiber and now my back door is paying for it.