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In the United Kingdom, the county lines drug supply model is the practice of trafficking drugs into rural areas and smaller towns, away from major cities. [1] [2] Criminal gangs recruit and exploit vulnerable children, sometimes including children in pupil referral units and those who have been excluded from school, and exploit them to deal ...
The largest county is Baldwin (1,590 sq mi, 4,118 km 2) and the smallest is Etowah (535 sq mi, 1,386 km 2). The Constitution of Alabama requires that any new county in Alabama cover at least 600 square miles (1,600 km 2 ) in area, effectively limiting the creation of new counties in the state.
List of counties in Ohio. There are 88 counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. Nine of them existed at the time of the Ohio Constitutional Convention in 1802. [1] A tenth county, Wayne, was established on August 15, 1796, and encompassed roughly the present state of Michigan. [2] During the Convention, the county was opposed to statehood, and was ...
Buffalo, Chippewa, Jackson, and La Crosse Counties. Trempealeau Mountain (from the French for "mountain with its foot in the water"), a bluff located in a bend of the Trempealeau River, [10] which flows through the county. 30,899. 732.97 sq mi. ( 1,898 km 2) Vernon County.
The first season of Amazon Prime streaming series Reacher (2022–present), an adaptation of Lee Child's 1997 novel Killing Floor, takes place in the fictional Lawton County and its town of Margrave, somewhere near the Alabama state line. Theater. The Foreigner (1983), a play by Larry Shue, takes place in the fictional Tilghman County, Georgia ...
The following is a list of the 67 counties of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The city of Philadelphia is coterminous with Philadelphia County, the municipalities having been consolidated in 1854, and all remaining county government functions having been merged into the city after a 1951 referendum. [1] [2] Eight of the ten most populous ...
In the United States, a county or county equivalent is an administrative or political subdivision of a U.S. state or other territories of the United States which consists of a geographic area with specific boundaries and usually some level of governmental authority. [3] The term " county " is used in 48 states, while Louisiana and Alaska have ...
County roads in Ohio comprise 29,088 center line miles (46,813 km), making up 24% of the state's public roadways as of April 2015. [2] Ohio state law delegates the maintenance and designation of these county roads to the boards of commissioners and highway departments of its 88 counties. [3] Each county has distinct construction, signage, and ...