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Posted by on November 27, 2007, 11:41 am
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>>2) There are 109 counties that have no 911 service of any kind at all,
>>a regular 7 or 10 digit number must be used to summon help.
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>That number does surprise me.
Doesn't surprise me much. There are over 3000 county-equivalents* in
the US, so this means that only 3 percent of them are without 911
service. But most of the 109 counties in question are bound to be
very extremely sparsely populated, so I would hazard a guess that
their overall share of the US population is closer to 0.03 percent
than it is to 3 percent.
Most states have counties, but Lousiana calls them "parishes" and
Alaska has "boroughs". Other county-equivalents include the District
of Columbia, and Virginia's "independent cities".
Bob Goudreau
Cary, NC
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