What is the longest county name in the US?

[Chefguy]

Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska has 23 letters and one hyphen. If you include the word ‘Alaska’, then it’s 31.

[Do_Not_Taunt]

The county I live in is King, 4 letters. Sounds like that’s beat, though.

[JWT_Kottekoe]

How about city names. The place usually called Los Angeles or just LA is actually El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río de Porciúncula.

[Tim_T-Bonham.net]

In Minnesota, the longest county name is 17 characters, “Lake of the Woods”.
The second longest is 15 characters, “Yellow Medicine”.
The 3rd longest is 13 characters, “Lac Qui Parle”.

So if the 2 long ones are abbreviated in the obvious ways, all the 87 Minnesota County names will fit in 13 characters. Nothing very long here.

[Leo_Bloom]

@Shagnasty

I downloaded the list from Wikipedia and used Excel to sort by name length. The results may be a little dirty because they contain superfluous descriptions in many cases but it depends on your definition.

County or equivalent State or district Length

Carson City, Consolidated Municipality of [19] Nevada 45
Prince of Wales – Hyder Census Area[5] Alaska 38
San Francisco, City and County of[10] California 37
Southeast Fairbanks Census Area[5] Alaska 34
Broomfield, City and County of[11] Colorado 34
Nantucket, Town and County of[17] Massachusetts 33
Wrangell, City and Borough of[4] Alaska 32
Honolulu, City and County of[15] Hawaiʻi 32
Fairbanks North Star Borough[4] Alaska 31
Yakutat, City and Borough of[9] Alaska 31
Juneau, City and Borough of[7] Alaska 30
Denver, City and County of[12] Colorado 30
Aleutians West Census Area[5] Alaska 29
Anchorage, Municipality of[6] Alaska 29
Lake and Peninsula Borough[4] Alaska 29
Sitka, City and Borough of[8] Alaska 29
Valdez–Cordova Census Area[5] Alaska 29
Colonial Heights, City of[23] Virginia 29
Hoonah–Angoon Census Area[5] Alaska 28

Yeah, use Excel and a database why dontcha’. Takes all the fun out it.

ETA: Native Indian (original) political divisions and, famously, Welsh ones would blow these away. But that’s a different thread.

[watchwolf49]

The Democratic People’s Republic of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge County … 76 or about 19 per capita

[astorian]

Nowhere near the longest in America, but the longest county name in Texas in Nacogdoches.