Think his head would explode

There should be lampposts for the Republicans, Democrats and judges who draw those lines.

Yet again North Carolina with their cartographers having a stroke

@@-spoons- look at Maryland's districts

It’s to messy

We also have a Paris.

Also a Corinth.

And a Lebanon.

And a Washington, which is right next to the towns of Jefferson, Freedom, and Liberty.

Wow, we even have an Athens too.

True Ignorant people constantly spew their uneducated opinions and don't bother to atleast gain some knowledge fml

There's an Odessa, Texas named after Odessa, Ukraine because the Ukrainian settlers who moved there compared the Texas grassland to the Ukrainians grassland.

Harrison Oh yeah, we've got one of them in Maine as well.

Don't forget Paris, Illinois

Harrison Alexander And Paris Ontario Canada

Miami, Texas is also a thing

It New York we have towns and cities called Greece, Rome, Warsaw, and Cuba.

In New Mexico, we have Cuba, Madrid, and Las Vegas.

Athens, Rome, Dallas, Texas, Waco (to name a few in georgia) Houston County

Dublin, London and Rome are just west of Columbus, Ohio.

lucky boi

You just shared your neighborhood address

West Virginia split from Virginia because communication was hard because of the Appalachian Mountains lol.

Shounak Ray Chaudhuri then explain why it happened so soon after Virginia seceded

@@user-zg5oo5yk2v Also because their views were different, but that was like the climax after the mountains splitting them

Really makes you wonder how they decided the name lol

which was not a free state area

It is occupied by parts of the states of DELaware, MARyland, and VirginiA.

My comment was kind of sarcastic, but thanks for the clarification for anyone who doesn't get it.

Thanks!

And San Francisco and St Louis

He meant New York state.

Don't worry. You make him the same amount ad revenue on every channel he owns.

oh yeah, the first channel is cool too with minecraft videos also hi I know you via twitter c:

Because at school it is boring

Absolutely true

Lol I swear your in like Yr 7 tho

Jack Bailey No im in year 10

weeklyfox bro there is no way your in Yr 10. Your in like year 8 or maybe Yr 9

EPMTUNESツ yeah hamtramck and highland park were cities before Detroit expanded it boarders! I live right on the boarder between detroit and highland park and its always confusing trying to figure out which of the two cities I'm in

Oklahoma City is in 4 counties : Canadian, Cleveland, Oklahoma, and Pottawatomie.

These type of things depend also the State: In Virginia, for example, cities are separate from counties and are located in gaps within counties. But many states in the Northeast like NJ do not let cities, or any municipalities cross county lines. And then you get the examples like those you mentioned where spanning multiple counties is allowed.

Colorado has some strange counties. Google Denver County and Broomfield County's shapes. I'm further in the video and he mentions this !!!! Lmao

Detroit is already weird. By far the largest city lying *north* of the Canadian border.

And Portland, Maine was named after the English Isle of Portland.

The BLAIZE Cinematics Even our capital city is trying to leave Illinois

He talked about Raleigh too aka the capital of North Carolina

I was just in Kaskaskia about 2 weeks ago!

@@dontworry1302 Lol

There's even a Dallas in North Carolina.

Just this morning, I was headed to the airport in Portland, Oregon, and my Lyft driver asked what the weather was like back in Texas. I typed in "Dallas" and it defaulted to Dallas, Oregon. Never even heard of that one.

There is a Texas, GA

I live in Fort Worth myself, and seeing all this now is weiiird.

Sean Wilson Indeed there is. Not too far from where I lived either. And yeah, I was surprised by how many Dallases there are. I think it's somewhere around 10?

Marc Harder also Banana

Toycat's Cat hello

Oh y'a.. . There is also a Rome, NY ! And... an Atlanta, TX

Denver Colorado

Albany, NY Say that fast 5 times.

we're pretty forgettable, it's fine

Cambridge, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Ayr, its goes on, and on we are very uncreative.

Basically every state does local governments differently. New Jersey has all land in counties all made up of more than one municipalities with no municipality in more than one county. Maryland has large populated areas with no municipalities. It also has the municipalities of "Chevy Chase Section Five", and "Chevy Chase Section Three" both with a population of less than 800. Texas allows cities to expand unilaterally into contiguous unincorporated territory at 10% per year with no regard for county borders, but it is impossible for a city to annex another city. Hawaii basically has no cities. In Virginia, cities are not in any counties. Every state is different. New York has three levels of local government that are not strict sub sets.

It does get complicated. I’ve lived in a Michigan my entire life and I don’t know everything about the township system here. Basically all of our counties are squared off (some are chopped off at the edges of the state or by other counties but everything is at right-angles where possible) and all of the land is in one of our 82 counties. Each county is then divided into square townships. Cities can be in multiple townships’ boundaries and even cross county lines in some cases (not many, but there are a few). Each township is also subdivided into squares and certain squares have to be set aside for educational development, etc. When you buy property here the deed actually spells out the coordinates of your property based on the township grid it’s in. It’s a pretty smart system. They could do that here as Michigan became a state in 1837, most of it was wilderness so there wasn’t much development to worry about mischaracterizing. Everything was surveyed and the grids laid well before the development happened. Places like Virginia had been colonies so they had to work around plenty of development, so cities outside of counties. That’s impossible here in Michigan. Our legal system puts criminals in county jails for instance... if the city wasn’t in a county there’d be no jail for them. It’s interesting how geographical systems have implications like that.

Also, the independent cities in Virginia are pretty arbitrary. I live near the independent city of Fredericksburg, which has a population closing on 30k and a metro of 250k. Then there's the independent city of Norton, which you'll miss if you blink while driving through. I'd never heard of it until I looked at a list of independent cities, and I'd actually driven through part of it without knowing. There's a string of cities along the Shenandoah valley that are several times larger than Norton, and the Shenandoah urban corridor is growing so fast that some are on pace to crest 50k people within 20 years, but only about half are independent cities, and the rest by all indications never will be. Then there's the mess that is Northern Virginia, there are 100+ incorporated cities there that are bigger than most independent cities, but aren't one. Some are, though, like Manassas Park, which is a school surrounded by a really big subdivision, population 15k and not growing. Tyson's Corner, which has more downtown high-rise office space than most major US cities, is unincorporated. It's all derived from the relative populations of the state's towns and cities in the late 1700s, and some political favors to frontier settlers who wanted post offices. Some of those biggest cities back then still only have a few thousand people, some of the backwater county seats that were never given independence because they were never expected to be anything more than a courthouse and the judge's house are among the biggest in the state, but not independent, and some of those frontier settlements ended up being coal boomtowns that died 50-80 years ago, but retained independence. Local government structures that probably made some sense in 1795 have barely changed since, and just don't make sense anymore. The current reality is often so far divorced from the historical reasons for the boundaries, that it's often impossible to tell what those reasons were anymore, if there was any reason or logic to it at all.

Do people move to Bird-In-Hand after being banned from Intercourse?

@@sexygeek8996 Very good. But Pennsylvanians have been hearing every possible form of that joke for at least a couple of centuries.

At 2:52, yes, Delaware DOES enforce their law on the "NJ" side. An industrial firm in NJ announced a project to build a pier out from the NJ bank as a dock for large freighters, and DE stopped it on grounds that DE environmental laws weren't followed (no permits, etc).

The latter of which has the University of Mississippi, just to make things even weirder.

Presumably that's why they would've called it "Maryland" because of Queen Mary: the last openly catholic monarch of England.

Isaac detherage don't forget Oklahoma has a few towns called hooker and for some reason Disney and titanic

Texas, Georgia Miami, Texas Rome and Athens, Georgia