D. Stussy wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Don Nickell wrote: > >"Barbara A. Brown" wrote: > >> Don Nickell wrote: > >> > > >> > I checked the Internet for "independant city" and came up with a lot of them. > >> > >> and how many hits for the correct spelling "independent city" ? <g> > > > >What's in a name? Potatoe, potato; programmer, programer. ;-P > > Only for the illiterate. > > Louisiana: The parishes ARE counties, just under a different name! > > Within the Continential U.S., I stand by my comment that Washington, DC is the > only city not located physically (not jurisdictionally, but that's true too > for it) within a county. The "District" is equivalent to a territory, not a > county. However true that may be to an observer, the city, county, and state officials involved in Virginia's Independent Cities disagree. County officials point out they have NOTHING to do the the City, which isn't part of the county, even if it is geographically _in_ the county. City officials have been known to argue that the city isn't within the geographic county, but is a separate entity surrounded by a different separate entity. As I've said privately, I don't understand it, and I don't approve, but it DOES seem to exist officially. And you'll play hob trying to find records about people in the City of Baltimore by looking the records for Baltimore County. They do NOT overlap. Cheryl