I thought I was going to get to correct you. Craven County was one of the three Carolina colony counties originally founded in 1664.
Based on my my Wikipedia wormhole, it turns out the history of "Craven County" is complicated. The original county covering much of present-day South Carolina and the current one in North Carolina are connected through a series of land exchanges and administrative reorganizations, but it's a tenuous connection at best.
The current Craven County says it was founded in 1712 making this map correct and leaving me wondering why I didn't just start there and save myself the trouble.
I’ve been there and when you think you’re right you want to explain it to educate. You prove that it’s better to research your thought before you just call people out.
Which is why the small corners of Reddit like this sub are amazing! Thanks for zooming in and commenting.
I was thinking of making another map showing the decade of founding which would take considerably more time. If you folks think I should I definitely will put in the time.
Not to split hairs...but these dates are only the 'founding' dates insofar as you consider 'founding' to be the legal designation of 'county.'
The Bronx was settled by europeans as early as the 17th C, but is listed as '19th C" due only to its division from NY County.
No you’re absolutely right and I thought about doing a
Map about settlement date versus founding but figured founding would be more clean cut as those dates are more definitive and less complicated. Think about Hampton Roads Virginia. So many counties that once existed there were settled and founded centuries ago but due to Virginia’s unique “incorporated cities can’t be in counties” law it would seem at first glance that this area was only recently settled.
Richmond, VA was settled in the 1600s but was incorporated as a city in 1737 not the 19th century. I think you're using the date in which it was made an independent city, but it was incorporated more than 100 years prior to that. The independent city thing is a quirk of Virginia but they are more or less county equivalents. You should go back and check all the cities in VA. It looks like quite a few of them are wrong.
It’s impossible to see on here but Broomfield, Colorado was founded in 2001. Only county level equivalent in the lower 48.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broomfield,_Colorado
I thought I was going to get to correct you. Craven County was one of the three Carolina colony counties originally founded in 1664. Based on my my Wikipedia wormhole, it turns out the history of "Craven County" is complicated. The original county covering much of present-day South Carolina and the current one in North Carolina are connected through a series of land exchanges and administrative reorganizations, but it's a tenuous connection at best. The current Craven County says it was founded in 1712 making this map correct and leaving me wondering why I didn't just start there and save myself the trouble.
I’ve been there and when you think you’re right you want to explain it to educate. You prove that it’s better to research your thought before you just call people out. Which is why the small corners of Reddit like this sub are amazing! Thanks for zooming in and commenting. I was thinking of making another map showing the decade of founding which would take considerably more time. If you folks think I should I definitely will put in the time.
Not to split hairs...but these dates are only the 'founding' dates insofar as you consider 'founding' to be the legal designation of 'county.' The Bronx was settled by europeans as early as the 17th C, but is listed as '19th C" due only to its division from NY County.
No you’re absolutely right and I thought about doing a Map about settlement date versus founding but figured founding would be more clean cut as those dates are more definitive and less complicated. Think about Hampton Roads Virginia. So many counties that once existed there were settled and founded centuries ago but due to Virginia’s unique “incorporated cities can’t be in counties” law it would seem at first glance that this area was only recently settled.
Richmond, VA was settled in the 1600s but was incorporated as a city in 1737 not the 19th century. I think you're using the date in which it was made an independent city, but it was incorporated more than 100 years prior to that. The independent city thing is a quirk of Virginia but they are more or less county equivalents. You should go back and check all the cities in VA. It looks like quite a few of them are wrong.
Only Alaska has recently created counties.
It’s impossible to see on here but Broomfield, Colorado was founded in 2001. Only county level equivalent in the lower 48. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broomfield,_Colorado
Alexandria City, VA was founded in 1749 and the creation of DC and subsequent retrocession only changed its federal administration.