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Columbia, Hempstead, Ouachita counties: the state of Nevada, which has a similar outline to the county's boundaries 8,120: 620.78 sq mi (1,608 km 2) Newton County: 101: Jasper: Dec 14, 1842: Carroll: Thomas W. Newton (1804–1853), a state senator and member of the United States House of Representatives from Arkansas 7,071: 823.18 sq mi (2,132 ...
Primarily from the United States Government Printing Office Style Manual. [1] State names usually signify only parts of each listed state, unless otherwise indicated. Based on the BLM manual's 1973 publication date, and the reference to Clarke's Spheroid of 1866 in section 2-82, coordinates appear to be in the NAD27 datum.
The following is a list of the 3,143 counties and county-equivalents in the 50 states and District of Columbia sorted by U.S. state, plus an additional 100 county-equivalents in the U.S. territories sorted by territory. [1] [2]
The geographic center of the United States is northeast of Belle Fourche in Butte County, South Dakota 1] while that of the contiguous 48 states is near Lebanon in Smith County, Kansas The geographic center of North America lies near Rugby, North Dakota ( 48°10′N 100°10′W / 48.167°N 100.167°W / 48.167; -100.167 ), though ...
Georgia is the only state that still allows sole commissioner county government. As of 2021, seven of the state's 159 counties operate under that system. During the 2022 legislative session, the Georgia General Assembly began considering reducing the number of counties in the state. [5]
Each state has a list of counties. There is a primary table, FIPS state code as well as a primary page List of Counties of the United States that both point to the list of every county. Each page also includes the footer which interconnects all of them to each other, U.S. Counties. It looks like this:
This list of current cities, towns, unincorporated communities, counties, and other recognized places in the U.S. state of Georgia also includes information on the number and names of counties in which the place lies, and its lower and upper ZIP code bounds, if applicable.
The map to the right shows the county boundaries for all 159 counties in Georgia. 149 of the 159 counties in the state are governed by a committee made of between three and eleven commissioners [5] while the other 10 counties are overseen by a single commissioner. All commissioners are elected by the voters of their county for terms that range ...