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Did yesterday’s dispatch seem a little shorter than usual? That’s because it was half the length I’d intended. To summarize briefly, each of the fifty United States has a smallest and a largest county. Yesterday I featured the largest of those smallest counties. Today I’ll take the opposite tack and present the smallest of the largest counties. I was getting ready to post an entry on both sets of facts but something didn’t feel right. I went back to the maps. It still seemed odd so I consulted an almanac and combed through the listings of counties by state all displayed in a horrendously small font. Yup, I’d transposed population and square miles for this section. In my own defense, and I’ll note this for the record, the values were surprisingly similar. While it didn’t change the state that had the largest smallest county it did change the actual county. That’s a pretty big deal when making a claim of this magnitude. I had to stop the presses and regroup my thoughts before bestowing that honorific. Sadly the years have not been kind to my ability to see close-up objects these last few months. I’m at that age where menus in darkened restaurants extend to arm’s length, where newspapers start to blur; where the fine print becomes too fine to discern without effort. I went to the optometrist last week and walked away with a prescription for reading glasses. I’ve never needed glasses so I didn’t appreciate being confronted with my own mortality, and I’m getting no sympathy from my wife who has struggled with poor vision since childhood. But enough of the whining. Here are the results. | |
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