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This is a list of municipalities of all types (including cities, towns, and villages) in the United States that lie in more than one county (or, in the case of Louisiana, in more than one parish). Counties are listed in descending order of the county's share of the municipal population per the 2000 census .
23 counties and 1 independent city: 23: Wyoming: 21: New Jersey: 17: Nevada: 16 counties and 1 independent city: 16: Maine: 15: Arizona: 14: Massachusetts: 8 of the 14 counties in Massachusetts were disincorporated in the 1990s and early 2000s; local government in these areas consists of cities and towns. One of the remaining 6 counties is a ...
The following is a list of the 3,143 counties and county-equivalents in the 50 states and District of Columbia sorted by U.S. state, plus an additional 100 county-equivalents in the U.S. territories sorted by territory.
Maryland, Missouri and Nevada are each composed entirely of counties, except that each also has exactly one independent city: Baltimore, St. Louis, and Carson City, respectively. The District of Columbia is a single federal district that is not part of any state or county. All of the above 136 exceptional cases are reckoned as county equivalents.
In cases in which a consolidated city-county or independent city exists, a city council usually governs city/county or city affairs. In some counties, day-to-day operations are overseen by an elected county executive or by a chief administrative officer or county administrator who reports to the board, the mayor, or both.
The by-county categories here are organized by U.S. state Hawaii only has a city-county. All cities in Virginia are independent. Also see Category:Independent cities in the United States for other cities that are not part of any county.
Cities that are not consolidated with or part of any county are independent cities, indicated with two asterisks (**). Only cities are in this list, towns are not included. Example, the town of Plymouth in Massachusetts has a land area of 96.5 square miles, which would place it at number 123.
The chart below depicts the 100 highest income counties in the United States by median household income according to the 2020 United States census. [2] Virginia has the most counties in the top 100 with 18 followed by California with 11; Maryland with 10; New Jersey with nine; New York and Texas with six each; Illinois with five; Colorado, Massachusetts, and Minnesota with four each; Ohio and ...