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Some helpful information on U.S. county lists can be found at WP:COUNTYLISTS. Tompw ( talk) ( review) 16:23, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
Sorry for ruining the edit history, but making changes to that table is impossible due to database timeouts, so I had to get creative. Bennyfactor 03:22, 24 August 2007 (UTC) This page must be renamed, as there is actually no list Kostja 15:36, 29 Septembert 2007 (UTC)
Most people would probably be more likely to associate with the county numbers used by the Indiana BMV than those used by the Feds, i.e., I'll always associate 79 with Tippecanoe, 3 with Bartholmew, etc. Jmdeur ( talk) 20:13, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
Where did this population figure come from? I can find no reference that lists the population for St. Joseph county near where what it is listed as. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.34.133.138 ( talk) 02:28, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
This column is sort of haphazard. We don't need to say "Formed from" over and over - the column implies that. Knox County is listed as Original; it came from SOMEWHERE, i.e. it was carved out of the Northwest Territory's Vincennes Tract, which essentially represented a 1742 purchase by France from the Piankeshaw Indians. Saying a county was formed from 'Unorganized' or 'Non-county land' is superfluous - just leave the column blank. What is really meant there is that the county was formed from land resulting from an Indian Removal Act or purchase by Treaty, and we should list the Treaty, like "St. Mary's New Purchase" for the Treaty of St. Mary's (1818). A few entries are just plain wrong; whatever source was used (probably a genealogy website) is dubious. Genealogy websites are notorious; they're not interested in history and aren't scholarly about citing their sources.