[TML] Environmental domes

[Joseph Paul]

With respect whether they are typical or not is irrelevant. The question was
what geo-political unit was comparable to an English shire. Since there was
no data given on the mean size of the shires I decided to give some data
about a subset of county units that I had some data for.
Your assertion that the typical county is much larger is also wrong. See
this map http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Animation/us.gif  and this site
http://www.naco.org/Template.cfm?Section=Data_and_Demographics&Template=/cff
iles/counties/sqmil_srch.cfm for the sizes of all 3066 counties in the US.
There are big ones but there are an awful lot of small ones. In fact
counties larger than 1000 sq miles comprise only 21.7% of all counties while
counties less than 600 sq miles account for 47.5% of them. It would seem
that the typical county is definitely somewhere in the 4-600 mile region.
I would be interested in hearing what you might know of actual
gerrymandering as it does not seem to have been a factor here. The counties
have very regular borders except where a river has been used to demarcate
it. In the west the county lines go all over the place which indicates a
need to include various population centers within the county lines to make a
convincing argument to the state.

Respectfully,
Joseph Paul

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Joseph Paul wrote:
>How big is a shire? Counties here (Indiana) seem to be about 400 square
>miles or 20 miles on a side.
With respect, Indiana county sizes are not typical; they are constrained by
decades of gerrymandering and the Northwest Ordinance. Counties west of the
Mississippi (roughly 60% of contiguous US) have counties 20 times the size
of Indiana standard.

I'm sure that, with sufficient technology, any size of territory can be
placed under a structure ( the OTU has floating cities, for Ghu's sake!).

Cougashika - fun trumps tech



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