In article <3CC47008.135B8205@icehouse.net> Don Nickell <dnickell@icehouse.net> writes: >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 (!)." Many encorporated cities in (for example) Virginia are separate from the containing county for governmental purposes. So you might pay city taxes on something and be exempt from county taxes. But for genealogy, I've always viewed these as locations, not jurisdictions. I'd list Fairfax as "Fairfax, Fairfax, Virginia" if I had any events to record. -- |Drew Lawson | Mrs. Tweedy! | |drew@furrfu.com | The chickens are revolting! | |http://www.furrfu.com/ | |