What 'dry' jusisdictions (counties, countries) are there?

I understand some western Canadian counties are dry (no alcohol sold).
And I presume some arab countries are dry?

Saudi Arabia is, and I think UAE is as well.

I can vouch that not all of the United Arab Emirates is dry for those not of the Muslim faith. Plenty of booze is served at the clubs in both Abu Dhabi & Dubai.

Ocean City, NJ, is dry.

Lynchburg, TN, USA is in a dry county. It is also the home of Jack Daniel’s famous little distillery, so that means no tasting room on the tour!

In fact, ATF officials watch over the tasting that is done by the master distillers, to ensure that the samples are spit out rather than swallowed!

So the BATF undertakes to enforce a local law?

Half of the counties in Arkansas are dry.

There are 52 dry counties in Texas.

Iran

Not dry, but from experience I know of a couple counties in South Carolina and Ohio do not sell any booze on Sunday.

As noted on the linked list, Lubbock County, Texas, is dry. But, it needs some explanation:

To Lubbock County, “dry” means “no package liquor sales”. There are plenty of bars around here, and many if not most restaurants serve beer. The limitation is, you can’t buy anything sealed. If you order a bucket of longnecks, the bartender will uncap all of them before they’re sent to your table. You cannot buy beer, wine, or any other form of alcohol in convenience stores or grocery stores within the county, and there are no liquor stores in Lubbock.

Outside the county, on the Tahoka Highway, is an area called “The Strip”. The Strip is a big strip of liquor stores clumped closely together. At night, the place is lit up like Las Vegas. You can drive out to The Strip, buy whatever kind of liquor you want, and drive back into Lubbock with it for later enjoyment (except on the Texas Tech campus, where alcohol is forbidden) and not run afoul of the law.

So, getting alcohol is mildly inconvenient, but it’s really just an annoyance. The only time it really bothered me is when I was looking into having some Inniskillin shipped to me, and I found my ZIP code on a list of “destinations to which we cannot ship”.

They can prohibit by municipality, as well; at least in Texas.

Thankfully I’m not current on this, but Pasadena, Texas - right next door to Houston, and a place I formerly had to commute through - was dry. Houston itself only got liquor by the drink about 35 years ago. Before that clubs advertised beer and set-ups (i.e., cups of ice and mixers) - you brought your own bottle of booze.

The Dallas/Foat Wuth Metroplex sports a confusing array of municipal approaches to alcohol regulation. Over the space of a few city blocks you can go from dry to normal to you-have-to-buy-a-club-membership-to-buy-a-drink. I’m a proud member of a Jo-Jo’s in some little municipality up there.

My college GF came from Quitman, Texas, located in the then dry Wood County, Texas. Saturday night saw a long procession of headlights marching steadfastly towards Big Sandy, and increasingly weaving on the way back.

There are several dry counties in Kentucky, including the one where the wonderful Red River Gorge is located. Believe me on this one, as I was nearly arrested in it.

I believe several other southern states have dry counties as well. Damned if I know why; those Southern boys and girls like to party. :smiley:

I went to high school in a dry county in Kentucky (Madison). Everyone drove to the TEN drive-through liquor stores on the county line to get their booze. There was also a bootlegger on the other side of the tracks (IN the county) that sold beer out of the fridge (and half-pints of liquor) to whomever knocked on the door.

Here in Atlanta, you can get as drunk as you want on Sunday AT A BAR OR IN A RESTAURANT (after 12:30pm), but you can’t pick up a 6-pack if your pal drops in to watch the football game. Sad, but true.

You can’t buy packaged liquors in the entire state of Indiana on Sunday! You can go to a restaurant/bar and drink after 12:00 noon and drive home, but not buy the afore-mentioned extra 6-pack for you buddy who stops by.

Westerville, Ohio (north of Columbus) is a dry town.

(Supposedly, there’s a Big Bear store (like a Super Wal-Mart) that literally sits on the city line. You can buy alcohol lined up on one wall of the store, but you have to go through one of the six check-out lanes on that side. I never went there personally.)

Actually, now that you mention it, I’m not sure. That agency had stuck in my mind, but it may very well be a local or state agency.

I will try and find out.

Many villages in Alaska vote themselves dry or wet. The crime rate ebbs and flows in direct correlation.

Benton County, home of Wal-Mart, is dry. No liquor stores. However, on-premises consumption is rampant. Technically, you need to be a private club to serve. but everyone ignores this. There are more places to get a drink in Bentonville (dry) than in nearby Springdale (wet).

Really? I’m living and working in Madison county right now and as I drove back to work this afternoon from home (all of two miles), I passed no fewer than THREE large liquor stores. Parts of Madison Co. may be dry (Berea, for example), but not all of it is. Richmond (where I am) is dripping wet. In fact, we are the beacon of booze that everyone else flocks to!

Also, IIRC, about half of Kentucky’s 100 counties are dry, yet Kentucky produces about half of all of America’s whiskey! Bourbon County is, in fact, dry… although Christian County is wet!

(…Just like this part of Madison Co., thank goodness.)

Couple of nitpicks: Kentucky has 120 counties, and only 30 are fully “wet.” 26 counties are “moist,” meaning they either allow partial sales, or they contain a city that has permitted sales.

For example, my hometown of Mayfield just approved by-the-drink sales in restaurants, but all other sales in both the city and county are still illegal.