Welcome to a new series, Administrivia: The amazing structure of the places we live.
US Counties, via via Wikimedia
____ Counties are something to be appreciated. Sure it's their names, but it's not just the county. Americans know the county they live in, they know they pay taxes there. Annual [county fairs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_fair) are a time-honored tradition in many counties, [some](http://yorkfair.org/our-history/) that predate the United States.
It's names. It's organizations. It's history (e.g. Louisiana church parishes). It's organization of Alaska (where counties were forbidden). It's the history of independent cities (why did these folks break away?). This is less of geocoding blog post and more of an ap