Posted by ME/NJ on 4/25/12 11:09am
Msg #418837

How big is your county

Ocean County is large, I have one deal tonight from a new company and it is at the last city in my county 40 miles away. One good thing this company will pay on funding..

I think it is 50+ plus miles from one end of Ocean County to the other end, that is 3/4's the width of NJ alone.

When I live in Northern NJ as a kid if you drove 7 miles you crossed 4 cities..lol

Reply by snowflake/PA on 4/25/12 11:13am
Msg #418838

The counties I service are large. In my profile I state I will cover parts of the counties I serve. I can be at one end of the county and be 60 miles to the other end. If the hiring entities will pay for extra travel, I'll consider it. Schedulers just don't get it sometimes. Got a call last night. "Can you be in Athens?" Greece? was my response. She was clueless. I got a good laugh and told her no. She needed a notary 5 counties away.

Reply by ME/NJ on 4/25/12 11:16am
Msg #418842

Person thought this town was 4 miles away from me

Said it was 40 miles away..lol. Hey pay me on funding I'll keep a standard rate for the mileage, consider it a discount for quick payment. Plus new client good will and hope to earn more business.

Reply by FlaNotary2 on 4/25/12 1:00pm
Msg #418855

Hillsborough County is about 1,000 sq miles

Most areas in Hillsborough County outside Tampa's city limits are suburbs with a Tampa address. Besides Tampa there are only two other very small incorporated cities. It could easily take two hours to drive from one far end of the county to the other. Heck, with Tampa's traffic it can take 45 minutes just to drive through a zip code. Our population is 1.2 million.

Reply by MW/VA on 4/25/12 2:16pm
Msg #418863

Very fortunate in my area, which is densely populated and

within a 30 mile radius. We don't have counties here, cities serve as that. The farthest west point I travel to is Suffolk, VA which is about 40 minutes. Traffic is another issue here, though. There are some areas that I don't cover because of it. I can really respect those notaries that cover rural areas, because it's a completely different scenario for them. I also rarely have weather issues (expect for those nasty Nor'easters) to deal with, like snow or ice.

Reply by BrotherOwner on 4/25/12 2:32pm
Msg #418866

Re: How big : Just for grins

St. Louis county,MN (6,859.91 sq mi ) County seat Duluth, MN. If I recall correctly 3rd largest county in country, one and two are in Alaska. I cover 10 county metropolitan area ( 3300 sq. mi.) and 3 counties in Wisc,, another 1100 sq. mi.

Reply by ME/NJ on 4/25/12 3:05pm
Msg #418867

WOW NJ is only 7K sq miles

Found out some facts about our county.


Geography QuickFacts Ocean County New Jersey
Land area in square miles, 2010 628.78 7,354.22
Persons per square mile, 2010 917.0 1,195

NJ has the most population per square mile in the world beats China and India.

Reply by jba/fl on 4/25/12 5:08pm
Msg #418884

Re: WOW NJ is only 7K sq miles

Are they counting those in the Barrens?

Reply by BrotherOwner on 4/26/12 12:11am
Msg #418952

Re: How big : Just for grins ----OBVIOUSLY, I was off by

a zero 3rd vs 30th largest. It's a good brain, I swear, but the zeros must be escaping somehow???? Been so long with that factoid, I don't remember the source!!!

Reply by LKT/CA on 4/25/12 3:23pm
Msg #418871

San Bernardino county is the largest in the USA, at 20,105 square miles.

Reply by ME/NJ on 4/25/12 3:39pm
Msg #418873

Winner is Alaska 330K sq miles


Rank County name Land Area (sq.mi.) Population
1 Unorganized Borough, Alaska 330,074.96 81,803
2 North Slope Borough, Alaska 88,817.12 7,385
3 Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska 35,898.34 7,208
4 Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska 24,681.54 59,322
5 Lake and Peninsula Borough, Alaska 23,781.96 1,823
6 San Bernardino County, California 20,052.50 1,709,434
7 Coconino County, Arizona 18,617.42 223,241
8 Nye County, Nevada 18,146.66 32,485
9 Elko County, Nevada 17,179.03 45,291
10 Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska 16,013.26 49,691
11 Mohave County, Arizona 13,311.64 155,032
12 Denali Borough, Alaska 12,749.65 1,893
13 Apache County, Arizona 11,204.88 69,423
14 Lincoln County, Nevada 10,633.61 4,165
15 Sweetwater County, Wyoming 10,425.30 37,613
16 Inyo County, California 10,203.10 17,945
17 Harney County, Oregon 10,134.33 7,609
18 Navajo County, Arizona 9,953.18 97,470
19 Malheur County, Oregon 9,887.09 31,615
20 Humboldt County, Nevada 9,647.91 16,106
21 Maricopa County, Arizona 9,203.14 3,072,149
22 Pima County, Arizona 9,186.27 843,746
23 Fremont County, Wyoming 9,182.27 35,804
24 White Pine County, Nevada 8,875.98 9,181
25 Idaho County, Idaho 8,484.88 15,511

Reply by LKT/CA on 4/25/12 4:10pm
Msg #418878

Maybe I'm missing something but....

according to Wikipedia, San Bernardino wins. It also says that Alaska boroughs are not considered counties and therefore, are not counted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_counties_in_the_United_States_by_area

Reply by ToniK on 4/25/12 9:05pm
Msg #418928

Re: Maybe I'm missing something but....

wikipedia...you know in college you get an F for using wiki??

Reply by FlaNotary2 on 4/25/12 9:32pm
Msg #418936

Not true... I have a professor who not only allows use of

Wikipedia - but actually assigns readings from it.

I graduate May 4

Reply by JanetK_CA on 4/26/12 2:32am
Msg #418957

Congrats, Robert!! n/m

Reply by BrendaTx on 4/26/12 11:36am
Msg #418983

Now what??

Law school?

Med school?

Vet school?

Reply by FlaNotary2 on 4/26/12 11:47am
Msg #418985

Law school of course :-)

No more being accused of UPL!

Reply by MW/VA on 4/25/12 4:04pm
Msg #418876

LOL So we're back to comparing sizes. (snicker) LOL n/m

Reply by Susan Fischer on 4/25/12 4:36pm
Msg #418881

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,194 square miles (3,090 km2), of which 980 square miles (2,500 km2) is land and 214 square miles (550 km2) (17.95%) is water.

As with most areas, from here to there as the crow flies bears no resemblance to how the roads get one there...

Reply by Cody on 4/25/12 6:46pm
Msg #418901

according to wikipedia:

According to the 2000 census, the county has a total area of 6,218.77 square miles (16,106.5 km2), of which 6,169.45 square miles (15,978.8 km2) (or 99.21%) is land and 49.32 square miles (127.7 km2) (or 0.79%) is water.[4] Cochise County is as big as Rhode Island and Connecticut combined.

Reply by FlaNotary2 on 4/25/12 9:39pm
Msg #418937

Most super-large counties are also mostly empty

For example... "Unorganized Borough, Alaska", while it may be the largest county, is also mostly vacant. Hillsborough County is very, very dense, as are most counties with large cities. However, you can't argue that "Unorganized Borough" isn't a county - a borough is a fancy word for county. If we aren't going to consider boroughs as counties, then we can't consider Lousiana's "parishes" as counties, either.

Keep in mind that New York City - most populated city in the U.S. - is divided into five boroughs, which have borders contiguous with New York State counties: Manhattan is New York County; Queens is Queens County; Brooklyn is Kings County; Staten Island is Richmond County; The Bronx is Bronx County. Five counties, one city.

New York state also has some very unique municipality structures. Governance is usually at the town level rather than the county level - and a town will have many "villages" inside it, and a village may have hamlets, etc.

The Bahamas at one time had a similarly confusing division. My father was born in St. Matthew's Parish, which was located in the island of New Providence. The city of Nassau covers all of New Providence. St. Matthew's Parish was the administrative area in the island. It was called a parish because the closest Anglican Church to the hospital at that time was St. Matthew's Church. So is New Providence in Nassau, or is Nassau in New Providence? Is New York City in Queens County, or is Queens County in New York City?

Interesting stuff...

Reply by jba/fl on 4/25/12 9:46pm
Msg #418938

Exceptions abound

The largest city in area in the contiguous United States is Jacksonville, FL.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacksonville,_Florida

Reply by FlaNotary2 on 4/25/12 10:09pm
Msg #418941

Jacksonville's borders were extended to include almost all

of Duval County... This was attempted in Tampa in the 70s but failed.