Primarily because the vast majority if it is owned by the Red Lake Chippewa as part of their reservation. They don’t have a treaty with Canada that would protect their land and administering it across borders would be nearly impossible. Not to mention that First Nations People in Manitoba are treated like 12th class citizens as opposed to the US where they are only 2nd class. The legalities of giving reservation land to another country would tie any attempt to do so in the court system for years with no guarantee that the courts would side with the US government anyway. It’s just easier for everyone to maintain the status quo.
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And there are kids who go to high school in Warroad Minnesota who get to go through the Canada on their way to and from school.
Same with Point Robert, WA.
At the end of her life, my mother lived in the “town” of Bryn Mawr, PA, 10910, which is not at all any political subdivision, but is a zip code and has a post office and lies mostly in Montgomery County, but has an extrusion into Delaware County.
Are there any others? I suspect that’s done for practical purposes, because it’s attached the way it is.
Well, that explains it. Thanks.
Even better, it looks like there are some areas that don’t have a Zip Code.
Check the area around Fort Riley, KS near 66503 and 66531.
The Texas Panhandle in areas surrounding 79083.
Frazier Wells and areas of Coconino County, AZ.
Giant chunks of Oregon, Nevada and Utah.
Wikipedia article on the India/Bangladesh enclaves.
I wasn’t aware that it was actually settled several years ago.
86432 seems to cover both AZ and UT, without the anomaly present in KY bend.
http://www.zipmap.net/Arizona.htm
also 82930
The city of Bethlehem, PA is split between two counties (Lehigh and Northampton). It has three main zip codes, all of which cross county lines (and two of which cross city lines). I’m sure the respective community colleges got pretty good at matching addresses to county…
Heck, There’s an Area Code that crosses the US/Canadian border: 418 covers a lot of Quebec, plus that tiny bit of Estcourte Ste. in Maine.
Off topic, I know. Apologies.
Thanks to my daughter elfbabe for pointing it out to me.
The town I grew up in was in two counties, with Main Street the county line. All one zip code. Same school district. I crossed the county line twice a day to go to school. Sales tax is slightly different on each side of Main Street. The little town of Wisconsin Dells,Wisconsin, is in five counties within city limits. Same zip.
Do area codes only stay in one state? Kansas City, KS and MO are conspicuously different area codes.
Well as mentioned it’s apparently fixed, but BE/NL are EU/Schengen, so people can just walk across the border. The India/Pakistan thing meant that some people were basically trapped.
“Census-designated place” is the term. Which doesn’t mean much by itself as far as explanation, East Los Angeles is a CDP and more than 120,000 people. It usually means that they don’t have city services, but contract out, like the police duties are done by the highway patrol.
The Kentucky Bend is based on the historical territories, only now an oxbow bend formed in the river and moved the land.
So if you are out on bail or a court, for some other reason, orders you not to leave the state (or take your child out of the state), are you in violation of your bail conditions or in contempt of court if you go home after the hearing?
I always thought that the most famous example of a place having the ZIP code of another state was Fishers Island, New York
Though people find it convenient think of them as polygons with boundaries, ZIP codes are more properly regarded as lists of addresses served by particular post offices or carrier routes. It’s common for all addresses—on both sides—of a street that looks like it’s the ZIP code boundary to have the same ZIP code. You can represent that by putting the boundary in the alley to the rear if you like, but other situations are not so easily resolved.
Always. Phone companies in areas such as Kansas City or Texarkana generally had arrangements for such calls to be charged only as local calls—even though nowadays the different area code often must be dialed.
Well, “census-designated place” only really means that the Census Bureau thinks enough people will want to know statistical info about it that they give it a name and census boundaries. The arrangements for local government services, and postal delivery, are completely separate. The Las Vegas Strip is unincorporated Clark County, for instance. Hawai’i has no municipal governments at all. And many incorporated suburbs contract with an adjacent municipality, or with the county, for fire or police protection.
Certainly an oxbow formed in the river, and I’ve seen guesses that it was caused by the New Madrid earthquake, but I’ve read other claims that the oxbow predates the founding of the original North Carolina-Virginia border which became the Tennessee-Kentucky border so that like Point Roberts it’s just a surveying artifact.
I believe it predates when they were states or even territories, but after they were set aside as western part of VA and NC.
I can’t find anything newer, but in 1994 there were 153 according to the Census:
A couple of other highly populated places are Shawnee Mission,Kansas, and Metairie, Louisiana. They are suburbs of big cities, but are administrated only as non-municipal areas in their respective counties.
And another example is Silver Spring, Maryland:
NOT always.
The one exception I know of, mentioned in my earlier post, is 418, covering part of Quebec, CA and a tiny, tiny bit of Maine.