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The origin of the division of counties into hundreds is described by the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) as "exceedingly obscure".It may once have referred to an area of 100 hides; in early Anglo-Saxon England a hide was the amount of land farmed by and required to support a peasant family, but by the eleventh century in many areas it supported four families. [1]
Virginia is composed of a mixture of 95 counties and 38 independent cities. Maryland, Missouri and Nevada are each composed entirely of counties, except that each also has exactly one independent city: Baltimore, St. Louis, and Carson City, respectively. The District of Columbia is a single federal district that is not part of any state or county.
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
England in 1086 showing hundreds, wapentakes and wards. Most of the counties of England were divided into hundreds or wapentakes from the late Anglo-Saxon period and these were, with a few exceptions, effectively abandoned as administrative divisions in the 19th century.
The 3,143 counties and county-equivalents of the United States Main article: County (United States) The following are lists of U.S. counties by various criteria.
The term county equivalents is used by the United States Census Bureau to describe divisions that are comparable to counties but called by different names: [21] Alaska boroughs: The state adopted the term "borough" instead of "county" to reflect Alaska's system with different classes of boroughs varying in governmental powers. [22]
The largest counties and county-equivalents are organized boroughs and the census areas of Alaska with the top two being Yukon–Koyukuk Census Area (145,504.79 sq mi or 376,855.7 km 2) and North Slope Borough (88,695.41 sq mi or 229,720.1 km 2).
Cabarrus County, North Carolina; Cabell County, West Virginia; Cabo Rojo Municipality, Puerto Rico; Cache County, Utah; Caddo County, Oklahoma; Caddo Parish, Louisiana