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Not that much jut annexed unincorporated NW houston areas of Cy-Fair/ Spring and everything in between and that would add the 400,000-700,000 the city needed to have http://www.cfisd.net/en/contact/district-map/ -500,000-700,000 people live within those boundaries https://www.google.com/maps/dir/30.1...ff9109!1m0!3e0
Somehwere between 1 and 2 million people live in the highlighted area and 85%+ of the area can be annexed by Houston. Cy-fair alone has 188 square miles of some estimating 700,000 people to 500,000 people which alone would pass up Chicago.
I say Houston needs to annex a select 200 square miles around it without even touching any incorporated cities to have more people than Chicago and with natural growth by next census it is more like 100 square miles, this is just based on the 2010 official population. To be honest Houston could have the exactly same square miles if it dropped a considerable amount of the east side and even parts of the west side like George Bush and Addicks Reservoir where 3,000 people live in like 100 square miles all of Houston. it could also trade many of it's lower density areas for areas of higher density right next to it. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ho...0d02def365053b
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The Las Vegas Valley is comprised of 2.07 million, but the city of Las Vegas is a mere 475,000. There's Henderson to the east/south with 250,000 and North Las Vegas with 175,000 and unincorporated Clark County with the rest.
When you visit Las Vegas, and you stay on the Las Vegas Strip, you are not staying in the city of Las Vegas, remember that, you are staying in unincorporated Clark County. There's a huge Clark County government complex downtown, along with the City of Las Vegas government complex, and why, oh why, don't they just combine the 2?
Hartford's only 18 square miles. Since CT has some crazy annex laws, we have some weird borders. Hartford's population is only 125,000 but if you include West Hartford and East Hartford you'll get a combination of roughly 250,000 which is bigger than Richmond and just as big as Buffalo.
Albuquerque always has the option to annex the South Valley, which uses Albuquerque as the postal address. At 50,000 it would be enough to push it past Las Vegas. That's Las Vegas, Nevada, not Las Vegas, NM.
Of course if they were to instead incorporate, South Valley would be the seventh largest city in New Mexico.
If Grand Rapids were to merge with its largest suburb Wyoming it would have 270k people in 70sq mi, putting it between Orlando and Lincoln NE, with less land area than both.
Hartford's only 18 square miles. Since CT has some crazy annex laws, we have some weird borders. Hartford's population is only 125,000 but if you include West Hartford and East Hartford you'll get a combination of roughly 250,000 which is bigger than Richmond and just as big as Buffalo.
Northeastern and many Midwestern cities are in the same or similar situation due to adjacent cities/towns/townships being incorporated.
Baltimore is an independent city, so It couldn't annex even if it wanted to.
Interesting fact: no town in Baltimore County and Howard County is incorporated although they all look and function, and in many cases, identify as their own. Also, many of the county seats in Virginia are actually independent of the county it is in, so the county seat is a separate municipality than the county the surrounds it and therefore not in a county at all. Like how Beverly Hills is separate from LA even though it is technically inside of LA.
Baltimore is an independent city, so It couldn't annex even if it wanted to.
Interesting fact: no town in Baltimore County and Howard County is incorporated although they all look and function, and in many cases, identify as their own. Also, many of the county seats in Virginia are actually independent of the county it is in, so the county seat is a separate municipality than the county the surrounds it and therefore not in a county at all. Like how Beverly Hills is separate from LA even though it is technically inside of LA.
Is the second largest city surrounded by county limits usually the county seat? (or the second biggest that's near the center) Are there still old county seat buildings in the independent city or did this happen so long ago that there usually aren't? Maybe they're used as city hall, the city courthouse etc. now?
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