Municipalities with unusual boundaries

[jb_va23]

My parent's lived in Bixby, OK for a few years.. a suburb in Southern Tulsa County. However, they did not actually live in the City Limits of Bixby. They lived in unincorporated Tulsa county within Bixby's fenceline.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/EjynDU9W8LJRMxM97

[bandit957]

Springfield, Illinois, is weird.

[CoreySamson]

Alvin, TX, has always been extremely weird to me. According to Wikipedia, the weird border around it is to stop other communities from annexing it and has been that way since 1960.

[bing101]

Springfield, Illinois, is weird.

Yes and Springfield has a hole in its city limits.
 there is a Woodside, Illinois inside Springfield.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodside_Township,_Sangamon_County,_Illinois

[Mr_Northside]

Yes and Springfield has a hole in its city limits.
 there is a Woodside, Illinois inside Springfield.

Pittsburgh has that as well.  The Borough of Mount Oliver is entirely surrounded by the City of Pittsburgh.

For unusual boundaries, I'd nominate Allegheny County's own (and Pittsburgh adjacent in spots) Borough of Baldwin.  Both me and a friend of mine agree that it's kind of the "Maryland" of Allegheny County.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/osmBhEjYLAc34Qux7

[JayhawkCO]

Denver has ten different holes - 7 from Arapahoe County and 3 from Jefferson. One of the Arapahoe County exclaves also has a Denver enclave within it.

[mgk920]

Denver has ten different holes - 7 from Arapahoe County and 3 from Jefferson. One of the Arapahoe County exclaves also has a Denver enclave within it.

ISTR that one of those Denver 'exclaves' is a one lot triangle in a suburban commercial area.

Mike

[JayhawkCO]

Denver has ten different holes - 7 from Arapahoe County and 3 from Jefferson. One of the Arapahoe County exclaves also has a Denver enclave within it.

ISTR that one of those Denver 'exclaves' is a one lot triangle in a suburban commercial area.

Mike

Yep. There's a lot of weirdness, especially the stuff around Glendale which is a city that basically exists so that a strip club and dispensary can have their own closing times that other cities aren't allowed to have.

[mgk920]

Denver has ten different holes - 7 from Arapahoe County and 3 from Jefferson. One of the Arapahoe County exclaves also has a Denver enclave within it.

ISTR that one of those Denver 'exclaves' is a one lot triangle in a suburban commercial area.

Mike

Yep. There's a lot of weirdness, especially the stuff around Glendale which is a city that basically exists so that a strip club and dispensary can have their own closing times that other cities aren't allowed to have.

That's one of the reasons why I said upthread that one of the best things that can happen in Colorado is for there to be a redux of the Poundstone law to create a single city and county that covers all of metro Denver and then some.

Mike

[bandit957]

Enormous consolidated cities can easily create problems.

Thirty years ago, it would have forced the central cities to cater to the suburbs, which had all the money. Now it would force rural areas to cater to the cities, which now have all the money, due to gentrification.

Both situations are bad.

[vdeane]

Enormous consolidated cities can easily create problems.

Thirty years ago, it would have forced the central cities to cater to the suburbs, which had all the money. Now it would force rural areas to cater to the cities, which now have all the money, due to gentrification.

Both situations are bad.

And in Canada where such consolidated municipalities are common, I believe such situations regularly come up in Ottawa and Toronto.  Québec even had to allow some to split, although they also have the added issue of language demographics.

[bandit957]

Some of the boundaries used by the census bureau do not agree with boundaries used by local government websites that are just as detailed.

[bing101]

Palo Alto, California has two parts for its city limits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Alto,_California

[lepidopteran]

The Boro of South Hackensack, New Jersey would like a word with you (its three disjointed pieces). We also have "donut hole" towns completely surrounded by another town. One of them is Sussex Boro, which is shaped like an octagon.

The boro of Hightstown is exactly like that. It is surrounded by my childhood hometown of East Windsor Township.