State of Confusion
At work, running low on sleep, and not having blogged in a while, this post at Barry's got me thinking:
By the way, Wichita KS is in Sedgewick County, not Wichita County, which can be confusing, at the least.
For all the talk about merging city and county governments here (which I continue to think is a ridiculous idea -- hopefully more on that soon in my primary election post), one reason it actually could work is that the city of Durham, NC is actually in Durham County, NC. Oddly enough, this seems to be the exception rather than the rule in NC. This is an attempt to come up with all of the oddly mismatched city/county names in the state. I'm sure I'm going to miss an awful lot.
I've listed the cities and the counties they're in, along with the counties and their county seats.
Asheville -- Buncombe County
Asheboro -- Randolph County
Ashe County -- Jefferson
Alexander -- Buncombe County
Alexander County -- Taylorsville
Graham -- Alamance County
Graham County -- Robbinsville
Greensboro -- Guilford County
Greenville -- Pitt County
Greene County -- Snow Hill
Pittsboro -- Chatham County
Beaufort -- Carteret County
Beaufort County -- Washington
Washington County -- Plymouth
Henderson, NC -- Vance County
Hendersonville, NC -- Henderson County
Franklin, NC -- Macon County
Franklin County -- Louisburg
Cherokee, NC -- Swain County
Cherokee County -- Murphy
Jacksonville, NC -- Onslow County
Jackson County -- Sylva
Waynesville, NC -- Haywood County
Wayne County -- Goldsboro
Yanceyville, NC -- Caswell County
Yancey County -- Burnsville
What have I missed?
Whenever i'd driving to the beach and i pass the Welcome to Wayne County sign, i have the almost irresistible urge to get out of the car, cross out Wayne, and replace it with Jayne.
Probably not too many people would get the joke, though.
Posted by: barry | April 30, 2008 at 02:49 PM
Can't forget Lenoir (Caldwell Co., home of the new Google DC) vs. Lenoir County (Kinston, widely reported as the home of the new Google DC).
Even their web pages follow the old Durham way, I note:
http://www.ci.lenoir.nc.us/
vs.
http://www.co.lenoir.nc.us/
Posted by: Tim C. | April 30, 2008 at 03:18 PM
I don't know, off the top of my head, but www.naco.org is an excellent resource for this sort of thing! At my old job, I was always having to track down a person's county of residence with nothing more than a city to go on. This NACO site helped tremendously.
Posted by: Aimee | April 30, 2008 at 07:32 PM
Not exactly a city/county split, but there's the town of Albemarle (East of Charlotte) and the Albemarle Sound (West of Kitty Hawk).
Posted by: James | May 01, 2008 at 10:40 AM
The town of Scotland Neck is in Halifax County (NE part of state). Scotland County is located down next to Rebeson Co. Laurinburg and Maxton are the biggest towns.
Rockingham=Richmond County (near sc border, next to Scotland Co.)
Rockingham County=Reidsville (on VA border, north of Guilford Co.)
Posted by: Lisa B | May 02, 2008 at 11:36 AM