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(@holy-cow)
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http://charlestonmo.net/maps/MississippiCountyMapLarge.asp

Check this out to see an oddly shaped county. The southwesterly border is sawtooth-shaped. The northwesterly border is similar, but, not nearly as many jobs.

Anyone know of one with an even stranger shape?

 
Posted : May 15, 2011 4:47 pm
(@dave-karoly)
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Posted : May 15, 2011 4:52 pm
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Looks like it's bounded by a river on one side and land lot lines, or section lines, on the other.

 
Posted : May 15, 2011 5:27 pm
 RADU
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Could it be Keith Williams and Kent McMillan trying to out

do each other with the variations due to Richard Schaut fence line surveys?

RADU

 
Posted : May 15, 2011 6:23 pm
(@holy-cow)
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Looks a bit like Alaska, or maybe an elephant's head.

 
Posted : May 15, 2011 7:13 pm
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Fulton County, Georgia

Fulton County, Georgia.

Andy

 
Posted : May 16, 2011 12:39 pm
 BigE
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Fulton County, Georgia

Yeah Andy,
Andy, that's why they have been buzzing about splitting it up and making a North and South Fulton for years.

 
Posted : May 16, 2011 12:45 pm
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Fulton County, Georgia

Actually what they want is to put it gack the way it was. Fulton was combined from two counties (in the 1930's I believe) and now some people in north Fulton want it to go back to the way it was.

Andy

 
Posted : May 16, 2011 12:50 pm
 BigE
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Fulton County, Georgia

Oh cool. I'd never heard that before.
Nice info Andy.
E.

 
Posted : May 16, 2011 12:52 pm
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I don't believe it will ever happen

There are already 159 counties in Georgia (WAY too many) and it will take a constitutional amendment to add another county.

Andy

 
Posted : May 16, 2011 12:55 pm
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This Lancaster County in SC, borders on the NC/SC state line.

 
Posted : May 17, 2011 1:17 pm