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Virginia’s cities are independent of counties

Forbes ranked America’s richest counties. Number one on their list is the tiny Virginia city of Falls Church, which is not a county. Besides illustrating the folly of reading top-10 lists, this rankingĀ also illustrates Virginia’s unique arrangement of counties and cities, an arrangement dating back to the 19th century. In 1871, the commonwealth created a municipal classification system in which… Read more →