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It's easier to wrap your head around the towns and cities in the Boston area than in many other metros because town governments have completely divided up New England and it hasn't changed in 100 years. No county government, no "townships", no cities surrounded by other townships, no annexation. Just towns carved up based on how they were settled.
Then you see a map and realize just how hard it is to try to count. Maybe about 200 on this map, but it only includes towns in Mass and the Boston metro stretches into other states.
I am in a distinct minority: I live in proximity to very few suburbs. My city has more than 85k in it, and that population largely comprises a county that is almost the size of Connecticut. There are only 3 other incorporated towns, in fact, in the entire county.
The attached maps shows dot densities of areas in proximity. If you leave the city, within 5 miles there is nothing, in terms of buildings, north or west. I think this is more indicative of the desert southwest than other regions of the country, where there are sustained rural communities within 5-10 miles of each other.
I'll list off what I think are Denver's suburbs (with the exception of itty bitty towns):
Huh, I never realized OKC had so few. Or that Denver had so many!
For Denver, I think you meant Cherry Hills Village instead of Cherry Hills North. If we're counting incorporated cities we'll subtract Ken Caryl area Evergreen and Highlands Ranch, change Castle Pines to Castle Pines North and then add a couple of those little bitty ones you were talking about: Bow Mar, Columbine Valley, Mountain View, Lakeside, Jamestown, Ward, Nederland, Bennett, Deer Trail, Foxfield, Kiowa, Central City, Blackhawk, Idaho Springs, Georgetown, Silver Plume, Larkspur. I think that will cover it for the counties!
I live in a metro area of less than 500,000, and we have about 15 or 16 suburbs. It is hard for our suburbs to become more dense, as they demand ever larger lot sizes. They will not even allow development on lots that were created back in the 1930's, effectively rendering those lots as worthless.
It's a bit difficult to determine the amount of suburbs in the Duluth - Superior metropolitan area. Hermantown certainly stands out as one, and probably Proctor too, although the City of Proctor is probably more "urban" on average than the City of Duluth! Farther out, the "suburban" areas encompass several townships without incorporated cities - Canosia, Solway, Thomson, Gnesen, Fredenberg, etc. Some of these have seen a lot of growth in recent years - for example, Thomson Township, known best for its "census-designated place" of Esko, has 5,003 people, up from 4,361 in 2000.
We have St. Louis City (the urban core), and St. Louis County. STL county has 91 municipalities, which is crazy for its size. This doesn't count the more exurban counties, such as St. Charles County, which has 350,000 people in a large number of municipalities.
Oklahoma City:
Norman
Edmond
Moore
Nichols Hills
The Village
Bethany
Warr Acres
Midwest City
Del City
Yukon
Mustang
Choctaw
Arcadia
Jones
Spencer
Forest Park
Nicoma Park
Harrah
Newcastle
Blanchard
Goldsby
Noble
Purcell
Lexington
Washington
El Reno
Piedmont
Union City
Newalla
Luther
Warwick
Wellston
Chandler
Meeker
Davenport
Stroud
Guthrie
Crescent
Langston
Cimarron City
Cedar Valley
Amber
Chickasha
Ninnekah
Tuttle
Minco
Pocasset
I listed 47. So, maybe around 50-60? That's including all 7 counties of the OKC metro.
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. If we're counting incorporated cities we'll subtract Ken Caryl area Evergreen and Highlands Ranch, change Castle Pines to Castle Pines North and then add a couple of those little bitty ones you were talking about: Bow Mar, Columbine Valley, Mountain View, Lakeside, Jamestown, Ward, Nederland, Bennett, Deer Trail, Foxfield, Kiowa, Central City, Blackhawk, Idaho Springs, Georgetown, Silver Plume, Larkspur. I think that will cover it for the counties!
