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The New York City combined statistical area has a larger population than Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming and Nebraska COMBINED.
Ventura County, CA, (pop. 823,318) is the most populous county in the US with no interstate highways within its borders.
Hidalgo County, Texas (McAllen) would not be far behind at 774,769 as of 2010. With a 35% increase from 2000 will probably leapfrog Ventura by the next census.
Ventura County, CA, (pop. 823,318) is the most populous county in the US with no interstate highways within its borders.
California is unique in that some of its larger cities are served by a highway that is equivalent to an interstate, but is not designated on the interstate grid. While I-5 doesn't go through anything -- Fresno county, but 50 miles from Fresno.
The town of Hyder, Alaska, located on the Canadian border, is considered to be the easternmmost town in Alaska. Due to its location, Hyder is also the most Canadian-influenced place in Alaska. For starters, the town is in the Pacific Time Zone (used by western portions of Canada), rather than the Alaskan Time Zone. In addition, Hyder uses a Canadian area code, Canadian schools, Canadian police, and Canadian currency... and it observes Canadian holidays.
Winslow West, AZ, (pop. 438) holds the distinction of being the largest town/CDP in the US with 100% of its residents being Native American.
Birdsong, AR, (pop. 40) is the largest US town/CDP with 100% of its residents being African-American.
There are no towns in the US that are 100% Asian-American. The town/CDP with the highest percentage is Kaumakani, HI, (pop. 607), which is 77% Asian-American.
Key West isn't the westernmost of the Florida Keys. Loggerhead Key, part of Dry Tortugas National Park, is at least 70 miles further west than Key West.
Cherry County is a peculiar anomaly. It occupies the space of the six counties to the south of it, which never got divided up into smaller ones, even though the surrounding area has about the same population density ass Cherry County. However, if it were divided now into six equal parts, the two in the southwest would have no towns at all, and virtually no residents. I suspect in modern times, Cherry Countians are quite proud of their sprawling county, and would resist subdivision. Cherry is one of four US counties that lies on both sides of a time zone boundary.
Historically, counties did not get formed by somebody just dividing up the state map. Most present counties were originally quite a bit larger, and as they become more thickly settled, they were reorganized later into several counties. There has been very little of this in the past 80 years or so.
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