What is the generally accepted practice for the County entry for a City that is independant? E.g. Norfolk, VA and Baltimore, MD are listed as independant cities, i.e., not within a county. These are only two of many. Thanks, Don

Don Nickell wrote: > > What is the generally accepted practice for the County entry for a City > that is independant? E.g. Norfolk, VA and Baltimore, MD are listed as > independant cities, i.e., not within a county. These are only two of > many. > > Dunno that it's "standard" or even "acceptable", but I put the parent county in in (parens). Many of the references are organized by County, and when I happen NOT to remember where Salem Va is, having the county name helps. (g) At least with the co. name, I end up in the right part of the state! Cheryl

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Don Nickell wrote: >What is the generally accepted practice for the County entry for a City that >is independant? E.g. Norfolk, VA and Baltimore, MD are listed as independant >cities, i.e., not within a county. These are only two of many. Are you certain that they aren't their own counties? The City and County of San Francisco, CA share identical borders. I have heard the same of Denver, CO (after it split from Aurora County), but I don't have first hand knowledge of the fact.

PS: The only city in the U.S. I can think of that doesn't have a county is Washington, DC. The "District" takes the place of a state, not a county.

Depends how you are defining 'City'. The City of Bridgeport CT is in Fairfield County! http://www.cityofbridgeport.org/default.asp "D. Stussy" <kd6lvw@bde-arc.ampr.org> wrote in message news:Pine.LNX.4.44.0204221956220.24038-100000@exp.bde-arc.ampr.org... > PS: The only city in the U.S. I can think of that doesn't have a county is > Washington, DC. The "District" takes the place of a state, not a county. > >

I checked the Internet for "independant city" and came up with a lot of them. I know many are in their own county, Los Alamos, NM I know of for instance. But, the ones I found on the Internet say "independant city"; I'll get some and post here. While waiting for Fairfax, VA to load: I've used the USGS City County Finder for years and the listing for e.g., County: Fairfax(c). It's Web Page sez: "Today Fairfax serves as the county seat for Fairfax County, despite having a completely independant government of it's own (!)." Google found 267 hits for that phrase, including Bablyon and Salford, UK. "D. Stussy" wrote: > > PS: The only city in the U.S. I can think of that doesn't have a county is > Washington, DC. The "District" takes the place of a state, not a county. -- ~~~~~ Visit our NICKELL, GAUNCE, MOOTY genealogy Web Page http://nickell.tierranet.com ~~~~~

I haven't had to deal with that yet but if I did, I'd list the city name as the county and treat it as being the same entity. Wayne Haegele On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 14:17:49 GMT, Don Nickell <dnickell@icehouse.net> wrote: >What is the generally accepted practice for the County entry for a City that is independant? E.g. Norfolk, VA and Baltimore, MD are listed as independant cities, i.e., not within a county. These are only two of many. > >Thanks, >Don

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> ~~~

"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

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.

Singhals wrote: > > 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. > In New York State, incorporated villages are part of the town they are located in, but cities are not (and cities and towns are both part of the county they are located in, except of course New York City, which _contains_ 5 counties.)