got this idea from MSPtoMKE at SSP.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b287/trizkutt/USA20county20map.jpg

thats my map. not great coverage, as you can see, or edited work. but what I lack in domestic I more than make up for in international travel. let's see your shit...what type of traveling have you done 'round this land of ours?

Why is it that Midwestern and Southern states have so many more counties than Western and Northeastern states??

If this hadn't been on the last Post display of the US forum on the main page, I never would have known about it. ;) Thanks for posting yours, fiddler.

The western states are much more sparsely populated than the eastern states, so tiny counties out there would have about 14 people in them. Of course, some of the large counties out west now have massive populations, but when the counties were originally created, they had much lower populations.

Anyways, if anyone out there wants to do this (it became pretty popular at SSP, if I do say so myself) here is a blank county map

http://www.boomspeed.com/atucker7/USA_counties_Blank.png

Use the floodfill/paint bucket tool in Photoshop or MS Paint or what have you to fill in the counties you have been to, using whatever definition of "been to" as you want. If you don't want to show the ones you have ony driven through or whatever, that is fine. Resave as a .gif or a .png, that will be the best format if you can.

Here's mine, along with air trips i have taken

http://www.boomspeed.com/atucker7/USA_counties_visited_planes.gif

Why is it that Midwestern and Southern states have so many more counties than Western and Northeastern states??


I honestly don't know why the south has such small counties and the northeast has such large ones, but I do know that the west's counties are so large because population is sparse.

I did this on SSP. I gotta bring my pic back up though.

does anyone have a link to the thread on SSP?

Here are the counties I have touched, driving thru and flown, landed and TOUCH the counties.

http://************/dfkdoh.jpg

hey, thanks for the shout out MSP. ya know, I would've posted at SSP i f weren't for a little...ahem...unpleasantness. needless to say, I am banned, but you already knew that.

thanks for the mpa, btw. for some reason my map wouldn't allow me to fill in using paint, hence the strangely circular counties that appear. here is a new and improved version, much more accurate and including a few trips I forgot/left out on the first one...


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b287/trizkutt/USA_counties_Blank.png
ahh thats much better

edit: shit, i forgot DC and west virgina, but you get the idea

As you can see, I tend to stick to the I-95 corridor. Not listed is a trip I once took from New York to Wyoming as a kid, who knows which counties I passed though along the way. Airport stops are not included (if they were I would have to add Atlanta, Charlotte, Pittsburg, Cincinnati...)

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y19/dave8721/USA_counties_new.png

BTW, I don't know what county Dallas-Ft. Worth airport it's in so I just colored the counties where Dallas and Ft. Worth is located.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/rinzae600912/uscounty01.png

http://img393.imageshack.us/img393/4712/map9jt.png

OK, i need to know how you get the colors filled in the map.... Also, to the maker of this thread, is there any particular reason why St. Lawrence County New York appears to have fallen of the face of the earth on your map? lol

Hehe, i live in the Southwest




http://img361.imageshack.us/img361/8294/klkk3fm.png



Why are there soooo many counties in the East and MidEast?? i thought orange county was small, its huge compared to those on the east coast.

http://img361.imageshack.us/img361/8294/klkk3fm.png






woah, you need to step away from the California bubble.

Why are there soooo many counties in the East and MidEast?? i thought orange county was small, its huge compared to those on the east coast.

The East and Midwest have a much larger population than the West.

^^ Yeah, if the counties on the East coast were as big in land area as the ones out west, there'd be counties of like 20 million people. And if you had counties on the west coast that were as small as the ones on the east coast, yoiu'd have counties with population of about 20, probably a lot of completely uninhabited counties.

http://img286.imageshack.us/img286/359/counties8qk.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Here is the map that displays my great travels through out this vast country,I don't travel that much anyway.

See, now I went and forgot about this thread again, lol. I never check the general US forum. Sweet maps, everyone! Here is the link to the SSP Counties Thread (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?threadid=84037), to the person who asked.

ROCguy, if you are still interested, you will need to open the blank map provided in either MS Paint or Photoshop, or whatever you have. Then pick a color, and use the paint bucket tool/flood fill tool and click on each county you have been to, it will fill them out to the county line. Does that make sense?

It'd be so much work to figure which counties I've been in because I've been in all but 10 states.

http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/4131/usacountiesmsa3fo.png

See, now I went and forgot about this thread again, lol. I never check the general US forum. Sweet maps, everyone! Here is the link to the SSP Counties Thread (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?threadid=84037), to the person who asked.

ROCguy, if you are still interested, you will need to open the blank map provided in either MS Paint or Photoshop, or whatever you have. Then pick a color, and use the paint bucket tool/flood fill tool and click on each county you have been to, it will fill them out to the county line. Does that make sense?

Yeah, thanks, I'll try that now.

ok, here are the counties I have been to.

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a221/nixter369/counymap.jpg

ok, I don't know why it came out that small.

Photobucket resizes stuff without you wanting them to, unfortunetly

^^...oh, that really sucks.

This thread should be nominated for a contest called Threads that sounded interesting but upon further examination where extemely boring!! It would win, hands down.

http://************/dr9rfl.png

http://img377.imageshack.us/img377/4796/1er0zf.th.png (http://img377.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1er0zf.png)

If you click on the picture you can see it bigger.

-Note, this is my first picture.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/mperspective/whereibeen.jpg

I haven't been to that many counties..but here's where i've been so far in my life

http://www.phpeeb.com/twisted/USA_counties_Been.png

I've lived in Southern California and Central Colorado, so I have seen those states extensively. My family went to Yellowstone when I was a kid, and back through Idaho and northern Utah, I don't remember exactly where we went, this is my best guess.

I helped a buddy of mine drive his moving truck from Long Island, NY to San Diego, which explains the strip through the midwest. I'm not entirely sure about which counties I passed through in PA, OH, IN, IL, MO and KS, we took the I-76 to I-70.

Since I'm from Denmark I haven't been to that many places in your great country. Yet!

http://img424.imageshack.us/img424/7827/usa0vl.jpg

What can I say? I'm an East Coast kid.

http://pic15.picturetrail.com/VOL630/3395992/6972849/114717809.jpg

I couldn't possibly put this whole thing together of the counties I've been. >_<
My family has driven everywhere, and I have never even flown on a plane. So sue me. I have seen all over the south, midwest and northeast, lived a few different places. Some of the longer drives that we did a lot of stopping on would be from Pennsylvania to Florida, Pennsylvania to Texas/Oklahoma, Kentucky to New Hampshire, Kentucky to Louisana and plenty of states and counties inbetween those distances.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v222/d-res/map.jpg

http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/1346/countiesmapku7.png

Blue - places I've been to
Green - drive by/short stops
Red - airport layovers

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g34/Jeramie_Hurt/USA_counties_Blank.png

This is all the counties that I can think of. As you can see the path from Chicago to OKC is a well worn one for me.:lol:

Mostly East Coast for me! I need to get to those "fly over" places! :lol:

http://pic15.picturetrail.com/VOL630/3395992/6990143/216513322.jpg

You guys have way too much fucking time on your hands. :lol:

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/6818/usacountiesblankrp6.png (http://imageshack.us)

Red=walked in or driven through
Blue=only been to the airport

I need to get to SanFran and I should probably visit the middle of the country...not bad for 18 years though.

Holy shit...

I don't even know how much counties I have been to. Seeing as how most of the lines seen are by highways, I really don't know and I feel too lazy to find them all on the map.

But here's an answer: A LOT.

Here are all the places I can think of although I know I am missing a few short road trips here and there which would add on a few more sections...I used to travel along with my dad on some of his business trips during the summer or other breaks I may have had since his clients pay for his travel expenses in full (as well as a few trips with friends). Lately I am only traveling between Minneapolis (where I live) and Rochester NY for college (I go to the University of Rochester for those that want to know).

http://axisplay.com/counties.PNG

I have also been to several foriegn countries including:
Canada
Mexico
Great Britain
France
Netherlands
Austria
Czech Republic
Bahamas

(I actually took a road trip from Vienna up through the Czech Republic, that was pretty fun)

(I go to the University of Rochester for those that want to know).

The UAA is where it's at! :cheers1:

The UAA is where it's at! :cheers1:

Indeed :cheers:

Maybe I will take some pictures of campus when I get back from break and post them on here.

To the best of my knowledge:
http://mysite.verizon.net/sargeantcm/ssc/USA_counties.png

Yellow = Lived in for any period of time.
Green = Spent at least one night in.
Blue = Definitely "set foot" in. This counts rest areas and gas stations; any instance I left the car/bus for whatever reason.
Red = Drove through without getting out of the car, or not sure/don't remember.

I know it's not entirely accurate, for instance a trip to Hershey, PA when I was 7. I know the way we took, and I know we stopped several times, but I don't remember where. Therefore I shaded them red.

NJ (2 passes), DE (1 pass), and NC (8 passes) are the only states I've been in without getting out of the car/bus. I've stopped only once in 5 passes through MD.

Not alot, but if you rewind just 6 years, you can erase the paths through New England, W PA, WV, DE, VA, NC, and SC. I'm finally getting out!! Also, with the exception of the route through DE, I've taken the other paths to SC at least 3x each - in fact I just got back yesterday (passed through 31 counties though none for the first time). lol

I have family in Las Vegas and Dallas as well, so who knows - maybe an excuse to blaze a few more trails someday.

I've also been to Toronto, Ottawa, and Cornwall in Canada.

NJ (2 passes), DE (1 pass), and NC (8 passes) are the only states I've been in without getting out of the car/bus. I've stopped only once in 5 passes through MD.



Its a sin for you to pass thru NC 8 freakin' times and not set foot in the state. :bash: :ohno:

Hey, the most I've done it in any state is VT. I don't even know how many times, or how long ago it's been since I did stop!

Ha, so easy to plot those family vacations. Clearly I grew up in the Iowa-Chicago region.

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f385/Candrson/MEUSA-1.jpg

Okay, I actually spent some time to do this...

Damn, I really need to go South and West! (Atlanta was a trip done by airplane)

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/8301/usacountiesblankwd1.png

The UAA is where it's at! :cheers1:

University of Rochester was my top choice.... took a tour of if this summer and everything... but I was too chicken to apply. Kind of a shame, it's an excellent school and a beautiful campus.

Okay, I actually spent some time to do this...

Damn, I really need to go South and West! (Atlanta was a trip done by airplane)

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/8301/usacountiesblankwd1.png

This, as well as the map of a poster on the previous page, puzzle me when I look at WNY. Thinking of I-90/New York Thruway....how did you bypass Wayne, Monroe, and Orleans county when headed to Buffalo? I-90 does pass south of Rochester and true not through the city.... but it still goes through the southern suburbs (Henrietta and Gates-Chili) which are in Monroe County. Did you take an alternate route to avoid the toll?

^^LOL, I went on the Thruway.

But, It takes too much time for me to check every induvidual county that I went to.

That map is a very rough estimate at best.

University of Rochester was my top choice.... took a tour of if this summer and everything... but I was too chicken to apply. Kind of a shame, it's an excellent school and a beautiful campus.

I never applied to U of Rochester, but I thought most schools have applications due in January, so you still have time if you can get your teachers to write some recommendations on short notice.

If I did a map it would only be NJ, Philadelphia, New York, Massachusetts, Maine.

I need to get out of the Northeast bad

I never applied to U of Rochester, but I thought most schools have applications due in January, so you still have time if you can get your teachers to write some recomendations on short notice.

UofR's normal deadline was Dec. 1, The late deadline is Jan. 1 but I'm not goign to even bother. The chances of getting in when you apply 3 days before the final late deadline when you are only top 35% with 1230 (1800 with writing) on the SAT is slim to none. I''ve pretty much settled on going to a state school in NC. That way I can ease into college better, being closer to friends and family, and then maybe if I'm lucky transfer in to UR later, like Junior year.

Here's my updated map since the old one was removed from Imageshack.

http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/1772/usacountiesmsamr5.png

i have been like allllooootttt of places, so i just did the northeast. ive got it pretty downpacked as you can see. almost all the counties in my own state :). the green country (northampton) is where i currently reside, the light blue one (warren) is where i used to live.

http://i10.************/346vv9x.jpg

This, as well as the map of a poster on the previous page, puzzle me when I look at WNY. Thinking of I-90/New York Thruway....how did you bypass Wayne, Monroe, and Orleans county when headed to Buffalo?
I-90 never touches Wayne or Orleans Counties, hence why I've never been to Orleans County (I don't think). One of just three Upstate counties I've never been to (others being Lewis and Sullivan), plus Richmond, Kings, Nassau, and Suffolk Downstate.
Here's my updated map since the old one was removed from Imageshack.
I'd say you have one of the better "radials" here.

Wow, this took longer to do than I thought. Grew up in Iowa, lived in western NE for couple years, live in Milwaukee now, and took a lot of road trips in college. Several of these routes I've done a few times. Nothing beats a good road trip!!

http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/1761/usacountiesblankdd4.png

I have never lived in the US, but this is the extent of my travels there.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v187/TooFar/USA_counties.png

I can name all of the 50 states.., Im not sure of all the counties! Probably
be a few of them repeated.
:nuts:

Wayyy too many to put them on that map.......I've been all over this country..corner to corner.

Revised, including Canada:
http://mysite.verizon.net/sargeantcm/ssc/USA_counties.png

This may or may not be accurate as I don't have this overlaid on any highway map, but I think it's good:
http://mysite.verizon.net/sargeantcm/ssc/Canada_counties.png

Yellow = Lived in for any period of time.
Green = Spent at least one night in.
Blue = Definitely "set foot" in. This counts rest areas and gas stations; any instance I left the car/bus for whatever reason.
Red = Drove through without getting out of the car, or not sure/don't remember.

Does anybody know where to get a map of both the US and Canadian counties/census divisions as one unit?

http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/9147/usacountiesyerfiy4.png

totally approximated, especially for all those damn small counties east of the Rockies - obviously from isolated road trips (except for the east coast ones), most of that, so i was just guessing

edit: i've counted places driven through without getting out, but not places where i've only been in the airport without ever leaving it

Whats up w/ virginia and the tiny boxes in some of the larger counties?...i have never been to the place, some please explain!!

Whats up w/ virginia and the tiny boxes in some of the larger counties?...i have never been to the place, some please explain!!

In Virginia, incorporated cities are under a seperate jurisdiction than the county that surrounds them. Different schools, police, etc.

Whats up w/ virginia and the tiny boxes in some of the larger counties?...i have never been to the place, some please explain!!

VA operates under an "independent city" system, in which incorporated cities are not part of any county.

http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/8034/usacountiesavianch7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

thanks. thats interesting. OH AND IN LOUISIANA IT'S PARISH'S NOT COUNTIES SO CHANGE THE TOPIC TO COUNTIES/PARISHES! jk..its understandable

got this idea from MSPtoMKE at SSP.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b287/trizkutt/USA20county20map.jpg

thats my map. not great coverage, as you can see, or edited work. but what I lack in domestic I more than make up for in international travel. let's see your shit...what type of traveling have you done 'round this land of ours?

You live in Wisconsin and have never been to door county!!! :eek: thats rare.

thanks. thats interesting. OH AND IN LOUISIANA IT'S PARISH'S NOT COUNTIES SO CHANGE THE TOPIC TO COUNTIES/PARISHES! jk..its understandable

Alaska doesn't have counties. Maybe it should be "counties/parishes/administrative regions".:tongue4: