Regions we live in in North Carolina. (Charlotte, Wilmington: employment, area code)

[gman6974]

I'm working on a project for Geo 111 and I'm needing some help. I'm having to list and define regions that I live in. I've listed all the political divisions and districts.

I've also listed the coastal plain region, Bible Belt region and Cotton belt region. They don't have to be formal. It could made up as long as it has a measureable criteria that I can use. But I'm having a hard time coming up with some more I could use.

Any ideas?

[lovesMountains]

Originally Posted by gman6974

I'm working on a project for Geo 111 and I'm needing some help. I'm having to list and define regions that I live in. I've listed all the political divisions and districts.

I've also listed the coastal plain region, Bible Belt region and Cotton belt region. They don't have to be formal. It could made up as long as it has a measureable criteria that I can use. But I'm having a hard time coming up with some more I could use.

Any ideas?

How about the "southeastern region" of the United States?

Not sure what the point is to this project if you can just make things up or not have to have them be "formal" regions?

[gman6974]

Originally Posted by lovesMountains

How about the "southeastern region" of the United States?

Not sure what the point is to this project if you can just make things up or not have to have them be "formal" regions?

As long as it can be accurately measured/defined by something, we can use it.

The point? To be able to map/graph out a region.

[lovesMountains]

Originally Posted by gman6974

As long as it can be accurately measured/defined by something, we can use it.

The point? To be able to map/graph out a region.

Okay, how about the Sunbelt region (a term frequently used in employment job sites to describe jobs from roughly Arizona to Virginia, including NC).

Depending on which NC county you are in there are hog farm regions (eastern NC counties) and chicken farm region (in the piedmont).

There is also our NC wine region with all the winerie's in the Yadkin Valley

[zthatzmanz28]

Relocation region? A region as a destination?

[arbyunc]

How about:

--topographical regions such as the Sandhills, the Foothills, the Outer Banks, the Blue Ridge, the Black Mountains, the Smokies, etc.
--Wildlife habitat/climate regions such as rain forests, swamps, Carolina bays, estuaries and marshes, etc.
--drainage basins for the state's major rivers
--and of course, there are barbecue regions, sure to spark heated debate.

[gman6974]

Great ideas. Thats exactly what I needed. I would have never thought of some of them. Thanks for the help.

[Francois]

Originally Posted by arbyunc

How about:

--topographical regions such as the Sandhills, the Foothills, the Outer Banks, the Blue Ridge, the Black Mountains, the Smokies, etc.

The "official" regions topographically are only three: Coastal Plain, Piedmont, and mountains.


You could also do it by area codes: 828, 704, 336, 919, 910, and 252. You could even use historical area codes:

NC was all 704 when area codes were developed in 1947. Later, 919 was added, which included what's now 919/910/336/252. 704 was the "Charlotte and west" code, 919 was the rest of NC.

Then in the 1990s, when cell phones and FAXes became so common we were running out of area codes, 910 was split off of 919. People were upset about this because the two were so similar, however, 910 was literally the LAST remaining area code because at that time, area codes HAD to have a 1 or a 0 as the middle digit (the switching systems wouldn't recognize anything else). For a long time, there were no "X10" area codes but they went to them when they ran out of the others. By the time we needed a new code, 910 was all that was left, so people were very confused when things switched from 919 to 910 so close numerically and especially in places near the border of the two. At that time, 910 went from Wilmington to about Boone, encompassing what are now 910 and 336.

Then, when it was reconfigured so that area codes could have anything as the middle digit, new area codes took off like wildfire in the US as cell phones became ubiquitous. Around 1999, 336 split off 910, 828 split off 704, and 252 split off 919. Note that any time area codes split, the most urban part in the area gets to keep the old one, to cause fewer people to have to change their numbers. More than you cared about but I've always had a fascination for area codes

Other regions you could go into would be Congressional districts (13 in NC); "Urban counties vs rural counties" (Urban is definied as greated than 200 ppl per square mile; you could probably find those stats on the NC demographics page--I think there are 24 urban in NC now, but the 2010 Census might up that);

[builder24car]

I had one in mind but deleted it. LOL

[arbyunc]

Originally Posted by Francois

The "official" regions topographically are only three: Coastal Plain, Piedmont, and mountains.

Well, to be technical about it, the three regions you list are physiographic regions in the official parlance of the US Geological Survey--there are no "official" topographic regions. The other regions I listed are indeed topographical regions of NC.