I think you’ve mixed up your allusions there. For me, Ravenwood =~ Blackwater. Jennings and Rall =~ Halliburton.
I employed some poetic license there to be sure that me smart ass, er, witty reply would be understood by all. 
I’m not sure I follow. Are you saying there could be a no-man’s land that is owned by neither town in between the townlines?
It’s pretty rural here, too, but I can show you exactly where my town leaves off and the next begins. There are small green signs (not like the highway signs) with the names of the town you’re entering on one side and leaving on the other to show you Of course, now that I’m looking on google images, I can’t find a single picture of one, just of the “welcome to ___” signs that are put up by the town itself rather than the state.
Almost certainly there would be. Most land in prairie regions isn’t “owned” by a town - it’s owned by some other form of regional government, like a county. Jericho and New Bern are almost certainly 10 or so miles distant from each other.
It’s pretty urban here in Denver, but there are plenty of areas of wide open praire around. We hear lots of news stories from places like “unincorporated Douglas County”, which roughly translated means areas between townships located in Douglas County…
Which, by-the-way is a smouldering crater in the Jericho-verse
Agreed here. New Bern and Jericho could merely be separated by unincorporated land that hasn’t been annexed by any town. I have a Tucson mailing address, but live a few miles northwest of the city, in what is referred to as “unincorporated Pima County,” although it probably won’t be long before I wind up in either Marana or Oro Valley at the rate those towns are expanding.
Wow, I had no idea. We have a handful of unincorporated townships in this state, but even many of those have names and those with people on them are treated pretty much like towns. There are acres upon acres up this way that have nothing on them but trees, but that land is all part of towns anyway. In fact a lot of towns like my own buy up land with the express purpose of keeping it from being bought by developers. The idea that places like that out west might not be considered part of any community is kind of mind boggling.
There’s a lot more land than in New England. Mrs. Plant moved here to Arkansas from your fair state. There was a tornado somewhere in Texas and an aunt from Connecticut called to see if we were okay.