An unwary visitor arriving on the Twelve Mile Circle through some random search once again provided fodder for an article topic. The query forwarded by search software said: “name of the county, state and cities starts with s?” Usually this means someone is trying to complete an online geography contest or perhaps an old-school crossword puzzle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So the answer would be somewhere within the sum of all towns starting with S in Saluda, Spartanburg, and Sumter Counties in South Carolina and starting with S in Sanborn, Shannon, Spink, Stanley and Sully Counties in South Dakota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For example, Stateburg, South Carolina would fit the definition. It’s in Sumter County. S-S-S. There are probably dozens of possibilities. Can we go home now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nothing is every that easy on 12MC. I decided to up-the-ante a couple of different ways. First, I considered only those towns or cities that were also the county seats. Then I expanded the universe to all fifty states. It was a manual process so I can’t guarantee the results. I could have overlooked something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Initially I created the set of states and counties that began with the same letter (154 instances). Then I checked each of their county seats. That produced 45-ish results. Maybe. What is the county seat of New York County; is it New York City? What do we do with Oklahoma City knowing that portions of it extend into multiple counties<\/a>? Can one of Virginia’s weird independent cities have a “county” seat? I included them anyway. Others might disagree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some examples were better than others. So I created a scale of impressiveness based upon the results I complied. Also I put them into a shared spreadsheet<\/a> that you should feel free to review, or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My interests focused primarily on the “outstanding” examples, of which I found only 7 occurrences amongst the 3,143 counties and county-equivalents in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gibson<\/a> referred to Judge William Gibson who shelled out the cash to build the local courthouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Glascock (map<\/a>) was General Thomas Glascock<\/a>, a Congressman and a veteran of the War of 1812 and the Seminole War of 1817. Apparently he could conceive children<\/a> in spite of his name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nResults<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n(1) GGG: Gibson, Glascock County, Georgia<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n(2) MMM: Mt. Clemens, Macomb County, Michigan<\/h2>\n\n\n\n