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Empty America
« on: January 23, 2016, 12:06:50 PM »
As the article says, nothing new under the sun here (though the comparison of Bronx and Queens counties makes me wonder how people can pack in like that), but I always find these types of maps interesting. It's something I contemplate a lot while sitting in the window seat on cross country flights. :)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/20/americas-emptiest-places-42-of-the-land-1-of-the-people/
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Re: Empty America
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2016, 01:16:39 PM »
How much of that land is federal?
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Re: Empty America
« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2016, 01:25:52 PM »
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Re: Empty America
« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2016, 09:33:18 PM »
Does that include Indian Reservations?
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Re: Empty America
« Reply #4 on: January 23, 2016, 10:43:05 PM »
Quote from: scout26 on January 23, 2016, 09:33:18 PM
Does that include Indian Reservations?

Yes, but other than the rez's in AZ and NM, they aren't a significant amount of it.
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Re: Empty America
« Reply #5 on: January 23, 2016, 10:48:20 PM »
Quote from: Regolith on January 23, 2016, 10:43:05 PM
Yes, but other than the rez's in AZ and NM, they aren't a significant amount of it.

The big red spot in Oklahoma just along the OK-KS is Osage county and listed as  "Osage reservation". Not really sure how that works in reality though as no one I know of that lives in Osage County really considers it reservation.
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Re: Empty America
« Reply #6 on: January 24, 2016, 12:14:35 PM »
SWMBO and I drove out I-40 last year, up around east side of Grand Canyon then west into Zion and St. George, our destination for a National Mustang (car) show. Then north through Utah on I-70 East. Wow, awesome trip if you've never seen how big this country is.

Westbound I was amazed at how the scenery constantly changed. No wonder the Native Americans hate Whites. Apache Reservation is so desolate I felt sorry for the coyotes!! Back eastbound crossed the San Rafael Desert. Didn't know there was such a place until we were in it. Smart enough to have realized long ago that there's not a gas station on every corner as there is here, so no worries. Then the Continental Divide, etc, etc.

Lots of country out there, lots of beauty & scenery, some even man-made.

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