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That’s an annexation every 5 calendar days…for 19 years… wow.
Yeah, although it’s only about 60 acres per annexation. Since there were undoubtedly some large tracts annexed, it means there was probably a lot of annexing of parcels of a few acres here and there. And he obviously didn’t succeed sometimes - you will notice that San Jose has an unusual number of unincorporated enclaves within the city, such as Cambrian Park and Fruitdale.
Just FYI, Google Maps does have a distance and area measuring tool. Just right click, and select “Meassure distance.” Then click twice.
You realize they could call it Denver International Airport even if it wasn’t in Denver. Cincinnati’s airport isn’t even in Ohio.
Isn’t O’Hare connected to Chicago by a strip out along the interstate?
No. That’s what a lot of people think, including many (most?) who live in Chicago.
It was originally connected via a strip along Higgins Avenue. But questions were raised about whether that complied with state law. So the original Mayor Daley (Richard J Daley) addressed the problem with a two-step program: First he annexed the forest preserve along the western edge of the city at the north end (see the green area in kunilou’s map). Then he made a deal with the mayor of Rosemont (Donald E. Stephens) to annex a piece of land along the southern border of Rosemont running from the forest preserve to the airport. In exchange, Rosemont got access to Lake Michigan water.
The original strip along Higgins was abandoned.
Oops. Higgins Road, not Higgins Avenue.
It doesn’t show up on Google Maps, but the southern bit of San Diego, San Ysidro, is connected by a thin strip that runs down the middle of the bay.
I suspect the NNW arm to San Pasqual Valley (and the Wild Animal Park) had to do with water rights.
I thought so originally but I researched why the airport has a Seattle address. I found a map of Seattle showing the shoesting and how the city limits are coterminous with the airport. It’s not on google so I’ll try to look it up for you.
Let’s see how many times San Diego’s weirdness gets brought up in this thread.
This post makes 3.
And since there was the municipal annexation of the airport land, the design of the district achieves that most of the actual city and county of Denver end up in one same Congressional district
The thread has gone on to other cities and their particularities but I wanted to mention that the old airport, Stapleton, was 49 square miles; the size of San Francisco.
Bob
The cities in mailing addresses are assigned based on mail delivery routes, not the governing municipality. The reason any place has a particular city in its mailing address is always the same: Because the USPS says so.
The city of SeaTac’s minimum wage ordinance applies to workers at the airport, so it looks like it’s definitely in SeaTac, not Seattle.