Fictional Municipality/County Changes

[The Nature Boy]

A couple for Virginia:

1. Loudoun County would do well by splitting in two. The DC exurbs are culturally different from the more rural western half of the county. I would use US 15 as the dividing line. Western Loudoun County would assume the name "Blue Ridge County" in honor of the mountain range that runs through its western side. The county seat for BRC is in Purcellville.

2. I would incorporate Arlington as an independent city. Most locals think of it as a city anyway.

[Chrysler375Freeway]

A few for Michigan:
Consolidate Lansing, East Lansing, and Lansing Township into one city, taking the name Lansing. The township is just several pieces of land. I would also add the unincorporated census designated places of Holt, Haslett, and Okemos to the city, as well as add the Eaton County CDP of Waverly to the larger city. Police services in Lansing Township are inefficient due to the piecemeal nature of this city, and would benefit from consolidation with the City of Lansing, and the city proper would also benefit from the money spent by students going to MSU if East Lansing was consolidated into the larger Lansing.
Consolidate the Grosse Pointe region, Redford Township, and the cities of River Rouge and Ecourse into the City of Detroit. A majority of Redford Township has been annexed by the city of Detroit anyway, and the wealthier residents of the Grosse Pointe region would add some more money to the city of Detroit. As for the cities of River Rouge and Ecorse: Ecorse fell into a financial emergency in 2008, and both cities because of their small size have a hard time providing some services.
Consolidate Kentwood, Grandville, Wyoming, Grand Rapids Township, East Grand Rapids, and the unincorporated CDPs of Cutlerville, Byron Center, Forest Hills, Northview, and Comstock Park into the city of Grand Rapids. The West Michigan region is growing, and the city will need more housing in the future as the city grows.

[kphoger]

How about city names that seem unpronounceable?

- Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
- Qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm

I guarantee that these would be pronounced /ˈæl.fə.bet/ and /ˈkwɝː.t̬i/, respectively.

[Big John]

How about city names that seem unpronounceable?

- Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
- Qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm

I guarantee that these would be pronounced /ˈæl.fə.bet/ and /ˈkwɝː.t̬i/, respectively.

Or Big Bird trying to pronounce the first one on Sesame Street.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

Qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm would be known as Qwertyuiopasdfghjklñzxcvbnm in Spanish, Azertyuiopqsdfghjklmwxcvbn in French (at least in La France) and Qwertzuiopüasdfghjklöäyxcvbnm in German .

[Henry]

2. I would incorporate Arlington as an independent city. Most locals think of it as a city anyway.

I'm also shocked that this hasn't been done already, since Arlington has been treated as a city instead of a county in all editions of the Rand McNally atlas. So seconded on the idea of making it an independent city similar to Alexandria, but why stop there? FWIW, we could call them the Twin A's!

[NWI_Irish96]

A few for Michigan:
Consolidate Lansing, East Lansing, and Lansing Township into one city, taking the name Lansing. The township is just several pieces of land. I would also add the unincorporated census designated places of Holt, Haslett, and Okemos to the city, as well as add the Eaton County CDP of Waverly to the larger city. Police services in Lansing Township are inefficient due to the piecemeal nature of this city, and would benefit from consolidation with the City of Lansing, and the city proper would also benefit from the money spent by students going to MSU if East Lansing was consolidated into the larger Lansing.
Consolidate the Grosse Pointe region, Redford Township, and the cities of River Rouge and Ecourse into the City of Detroit. A majority of Redford Township has been annexed by the city of Detroit anyway, and the wealthier residents of the Grosse Pointe region would add some more money to the city of Detroit. As for the cities of River Rouge and Ecorse: Ecorse fell into a financial emergency in 2008, and both cities because of their small size have a hard time providing some services.
Consolidate Kentwood, Grandville, Wyoming, Grand Rapids Township, East Grand Rapids, and the unincorporated CDPs of Cutlerville, Byron Center, Forest Hills, Northview, and Comstock Park into the city of Grand Rapids. The West Michigan region is growing, and the city will need more housing in the future as the city grows.

Having spent significant time in both East Lansing and East Grand Rapids, I'm quite certain that neither would have an  interest in merging with their namesakes.

[hobsini2]

I just did a makeover for Wisconsin. 72 to 64 counties remain. Some name changes and county seat changes. 
Here is the list (County merges in green, county name changes in blue, county seat changes in yellow):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1r2cTe89Mdty1bcqnwy9zbSDaEqs6SmdqLEeOKJ93gok/edit?usp=sharing

Counties that are gone by merging:
Calumet, Forest, Green Lake, Iowa, Iron, Kewaunee, Pepin, Washington

[mgk920]

I just did a makeover for Wisconsin. 72 to 64 counties remain. Some name changes and county seat changes. 
Here is the list (County merges in green, county name changes in blue, county seat changes in yellow):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1r2cTe89Mdty1bcqnwy9zbSDaEqs6SmdqLEeOKJ93gok/edit?usp=sharing

Counties that are gone by merging:
Calumet, Forest, Green Lake, Iowa, Iron, Kewaunee, Pepin, Washington

I would merge Calumet, Outagamie and Winnebago counties into one, county seat to be in an amalgamated metro Appleton muni.

I would also merge Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Washington and Waukesha counties into one, county seat to be an amalgamated metro-wide muni.

Merge Chippewa and Eau Claire counties?

Mike

Mike