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The list of county secession proposals in the United States includes proposed new counties to be formed from existing counties within a given state that have not yet been formed. For counties that want to secede from their current state and to join or create another, see List of U.S. state partition proposals.
Rhode Island is tied with Hawaii for having the second-fewest counties of any U.S. state (only Delaware has fewer, with three counties). [1] Although Rhode Island is divided into counties, it does not have any local government at the county level. [2] Instead, local governance is provided by the eight cities and thirty-one towns. [3] Counties ...
The Territory of American Samoa has 14 counties; however, these counties are not counted by the U.S. Census Bureau (they are treated as minor civil divisions). [2] The U.S. Census Bureau counts the 3 districts and 2 atolls of American Samoa as county-equivalents. [1] [2] Eastern District, American Samoa; Manu'a District, American Samoa
Hawaii: 5: Rhode Island: Counties in Rhode Island have no governmental functions; local government is provided by eight cities and thirty-one towns: 4: Northern Mariana Islands: The Northern Mariana Islands has no counties. The 4 municipalities of the Northern Mariana Islands are counted as county-equivalents by the U.S. Census Bureau: 3: Delaware
Alaska and Louisiana are not divided into counties. A different ranking becomes apparent when comparing county areas by land area alone as opposed to total area. Some counties, such as Keweenaw and Alger Counties in Michigan, include significant amounts of water in their total area and would not appear on a list that considered land area alone ...
All the counties were created in 1905 from unorganized territory, seven years after the Territory of Hawaii was created. [2] [3] The county of Kalawao was historically exclusively used as a leper colony, and does not have many of the elected officials the other counties do. [4] Many services for Kalawao County are provided by Maui County.
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San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area: February 12, 1874 San Bernardino: 2,181,654 20062 Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area: April 26, 1853 San Diego: 3,298,634 4204 San Diego-Carlsbad, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area: February 18, 1850 San Francisco, City and County of [k] 873,965 47