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PostTue Dec 15, 2015 5:32 pm 
Here's a link to a hi-res zoomable map of unpopulated U.S. Census blocks

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PostTue Dec 15, 2015 6:42 pm 
North Dakota really stands out to me very curious

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PostTue Dec 15, 2015 10:03 pm 
meandering Wa wrote:
North Dakota really stands out to me very curious
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PostTue Dec 15, 2015 11:21 pm 
It's a cool map but not that much in sync with reality. The census tracts are oddly shaped just like legislative districts. Just look at any area you're familiar with and you can find a green area that's obviously not unpopulated.

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PostWed Dec 16, 2015 9:23 am 
puzzlr wrote:
It's a cool map but not that much in sync with reality. The census tracts are oddly shaped just like legislative districts.
Read the notes and see the link below. The term is "census block." The USA is comprised of more than 11,000,000 census blocks, and more than 4,800,000 of them were deemed to have no inhabitants in the 2010 census. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Census_block. If you zoom in on the map you'll see tiny white spots in some of those big green areas. Those tiny white spots are indicative of just how small a census block can be. The things you see that look like legislative blocks are actually comprised of many, usually thousands, of census blocks. There are 25,000 more census blocks (11,000,000+) than legislative blocks (435). ND's single legislative block -- ND has only 1 member in the House of Representatives -- is comprised of hundreds of thousands of census blocks. With that background, the map looks like a fair representation based on my numerous travels across the USA (bicycling, driving and hitch hiking) and looking out the window on numerous airplane flights.

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PostThu Dec 17, 2015 4:21 am 
Miles from No Where, Dayton Duncan. Sparsely populated counties of the USA and some of the folk who live there. Ex. Custer County, Idaho! Stanley. Pop. 99. Wife's sister is one of them! Tom

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PostThu Dec 17, 2015 9:14 am 
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PostThu Dec 17, 2015 11:22 am 
moonspots wrote:
meandering Wa wrote:
North Dakota really stands out to me very curious
Wait! I'm here! lol.gif
I grew up there, on a farm about 18 miles west of Williston...it's an excellent place to be...FROM!

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PostThu Dec 17, 2015 11:41 am 
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Interesting. Note that Canada has a very different way of determining its census blocks, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Census_geographic_units_of_Canada, and AFAICT has a fraction of the U.S. 11,000,000+ census block slicing & dicing, so that map is and the U.S. map likely do not compare apples-to-apples.

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PostThu Dec 17, 2015 1:45 pm 
did not realize so much of Newfoundland was uninhabited. That is kind of appealing

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PostThu Dec 17, 2015 2:36 pm 
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did not realize so much of Newfoundland was uninhabited. That is kind of appealing
Probably for very good reason. Brutal weather conditions. Farley Mowat's "The Boat Who Wouldn't Float" offers an interesting and humorous introduction to Newfoundland and its people. From what I gathered, while it's been "officially" part of Canada for decades now, in some ways it really isn't, remains culturally and politically separated from the mainland and probably always will.

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PostThu Dec 17, 2015 3:32 pm 
Somebody should start a Newfie joke thread

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PostThu Dec 17, 2015 3:40 pm 
Dad always said "The world will end at midnight, 12:30 Newfoundland" lol.gif

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PostThu Dec 17, 2015 5:45 pm 
I used the wrong word, but I still think the impression it leaves is misleading. For one thing, every body of water is colored in. So yes, technically no one lives in Lake Washington, Samamish or any of the other small lakes in the area. No one lives at SeaTac or in the industrial Green River valley
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And no one lives "in" these small green areas nestled in between housing developments
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I'm not even sure why I'm arguing about this. It's still a cool map. I love maps like this. But much of this land is not "unpopulated" as most people understand that term. Is a shopping mall unpopulated?

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