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What is the least populous county in your state? What do you know about it? Have you ever been there?
In Washington ours is Garfield County, pop. 2,290. It's near the southeast corner of the state, with its county seat, Pomeroy, lying 2 hours from Spokane and 4.5 hours from Seattle. Part of the largely agricultural Palouse sub-region, its economy is dominated by wheat and barley production.
My knowledge of Garfield County history is limited to the following: it contains Pataha, a near-ghost town that suffered a major fire in the 1890s and has never really recovered, and the county's economy took another major hit in the '80s after Union Pacific abandoned a section of a rail line passing through the area. I don't really see the area ever growing much in the future; it's too far from the Tri-Cities and Spokane to serve as a viable bedroom community as those places continue to become more expensive, and it doesn't offer any real natural beauty of note.
I passed through there once a couple years ago en route to Lewiston, ID. Amusingly, the US-12 mile marker 420, which lies inside the county, is instead designated as "419.9".
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For Ohio it’s Vinton County which only has 13,435 residents, probably the best county to live in if you want to get away from it all and live in a natural setting. I have been through McArthur several times, it’s an old country town trapped in time.
Harding County, New Mexico, has been losing population since New Mexico attained statehood. It's in the northeastern portion of the state, close to Colorado and Oklahoma. In 2019, it's estimated population 625. It was 695 in the 2010 census. The county is slightly over 2,000 square miles, or larger than Delaware, which claims just under a million in the 2020 census.
For you Delawareans, if you threw everyone out of Delaware except for those residents in Arden Village, and threw them out, then asked those in Arden Village to spread out around Delaware and settle, you would re-capture what life is like in Harding County, New Mexico.
In Washington ours is Garfield County, pop. 2,290. It's near the southeast corner of the state, with its county seat, Pomeroy, lying 2 hours from Spokane and 4.5 hours from Seattle. Part of the largely agricultural Palouse sub-region, its economy is dominated by wheat and barley production.
My knowledge of Garfield County history is limited to the following: it contains Pataha, a near-ghost town that suffered a major fire in the 1890s and has never really recovered, and the county's economy took another major hit in the '80s after Union Pacific abandoned a section of a rail line passing through the area. I don't really see the area ever growing much in the future; it's too far from the Tri-Cities and Spokane to serve as a viable bedroom community as those places continue to become more expensive, and it doesn't offer any real natural beauty of note.
I passed through there once a couple years ago en route to Lewiston, ID. Amusingly, the US-12 mile marker 420, which lies inside the county, is instead designated as "419.9".
I think all 420 mile markers in Washington state have been replaced since the druggies were stealing them for interior decoration.
I spend three to four weeks every year in Garfield county. Pomeroy is a nice town. Location is not bad.
Pretty funny comment about Pataha, I always considered it a suburb of Pomeroy.
It is within a half hour drive of the Lewiston-Clarkston metro area. Depending about how people feel about hot weather I can see it becoming a bedroom community of Lewiston.
Worse yet, the past few years there has been quite an influx of "urban refugees" from the Seattle area.
A close friend of mine sold his business in the Seattle area and has moved over. He is not alone judging from the number of no trespassing signs that have gone up in the past few years.
The county is being totally ruined by the Industrial Wind Areas. That is just awful. Now the Governor is overriding local zoning and telling the counties that they MUST ACCEPT more Industrial Wind Areas!!! So much for using the environmental protection clause of the Growth Management Act!!!
If the county can stop the Industrial Wind Areas, it might stand a chance of people moving there for the quality of life, otherwise it will just become another rust belt area.
Cimarron County in Oklahoma, pop. 2137. At the west end of the panhandle it's as remote and sparsely populated as it gets in Oklahoma. Trump won there in 2020 by 92%, and there is a highway named after him.
The biggest town there is Boise City, barely over a 1000 in population. It peaked out when the Great Depression started at 5.408.
Hamilton County in the Adirondacks/North Country
Population 4,836
Density 2.67 people per square mile
Most populous
Kings County - Brooklyn - one of the 5 boroughs of NYC
Population 2,504,700
Density 35,000* people per square mile
* rough estimate
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