National
Interest
Virtual Stake Outs - Live Border Cameras
The Texas Border Sheriff's Coalition (TBSC)
has
joined BlueServoSM
in a public-private partnership to deploy the Virtual Community Watch,
an innovative real-time surveillance program designed to empower the
public to proactively participate in fighting border crime. Free
account sign in required.
This area is known of illegal drug activity.
If
you see people moving in this area please report activity. See CNN story
County
Governments
Forty-eight
of the
fifty states have operational county governments. Alaska and Louisiana
call their county-type governments boroughs and parishes, respectively.
Connecticut and Rhode Island are divided into geographic regions called
counties, but they do not have functioning governments, as defined by
the Census Bureau.
Hawaii
and Delaware each have the fewest counties (3); Texas has the
most (254). In addition to the 3,033 counties, there are 33 city-county
governments (i.e., cities that have consolidated government functions
with their surrounding counties). Jacksonville/Duval City/County is an
example of this types of government structure.
Counties
vary greatly in size and population. They range in area from
26 to 87,860 square miles (i.e. Arlington County, Virginia and the
North Slope Borough, Alaska). Similarly, the population of counties
varies tremendously from Loving County, Texas with 67 residents to Los
Angeles County, California, which is home to 9,519,338 people. Counties
with populations under 50,000 accounted for nearly three-fourths of all
county governments.
(Source: NACo)
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