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Peter Kronenberg (pak@panix.com) wrote:

: But Falls Church is *in* Fairfax County, isn't it?  I'm just moving to the
: area (from New Jersey) and I'm real confused at how the city/county
: structure works in Northern Va.

No, it isn't, just as Washington DC is not in Maryland and Baltimore is 
not in Baltimore County.

Virginia has a unique system for towns called the "Independent City" - 
these are cities that are not part of a county and are independent.  The 
U.S. has, I believe, 49 of them.  One is the City of Baltimore, which is 
separate from and independent of Baltimore County.  The other is the city 
of Carson City, NV.  The other 47 are in Virginia, and include Alexandria,
Falls Church and Fairfax City.

These cities are independent and are not part of another county even if 
they are geographically enclaves of those counties.

The city of Signal Hill, CA is an enclave of the City of Long Beach, but
Signal Hill is still a separate incorporated city with its own police 
department (they got hit with a major Rodney-King class lawsuit about 10 
or 15 years ago), and use the County of Los Angeles for Fire Protection.

But Long Beach and Signal Hill are separate cities even though there is 
no way to get into Signal Hill except by traveling through Long Beach; 
the town is completely surrounded.

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