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DC Area Trivia
March 07, 2006 ( life )
Localities in the DC area are so deeply ... FUBARed and confuzled.
There's a Chevy Chase neighborhood in DC, which is seamlessly integrated into Chevy Chase (city), Maryland, which overlaps mostly with a census-designated place called, also, chevy chase, and these border Chevy Chase Village. Chevy Chase the actor, born Cornelius Chase, was reportedly nicknamed Chevy and stuck with it into acting. Similarly, there's a Takoma Park, Washington, DC (No relation to Tacoma, Washington), and Takoma Maryland, which is one "city" that spans two "states" -- I've even found one of the boundary stones set in place by the original city planners, no doubt so the evils of the federal government could be kept in check through enchanted means or somesuch.
Also, zip codes cross municipality borders. I don't actually know if this happens in other dense cities, but a zip code could encompass 2 or three separate municipalities, which breaks my mind on how they should be laid out.
This, no doubt, is what happens when you let the French design your cities -- and it only makes it worse when you let Virginia reneg on the deal and take back (retroceded is the term, it seems, in 1847) half of the District.
More DC info at Wikipedia, including why there's a sculpture of Darth Vader on the National Cathedral
Posted by griffjon at March 7, 2006 10:05 PM
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