I don't recall ever having been asked to put down county of residence on a federal form, though if I was I would have named the county I lived in rather than leaving it blank. State forms ask for town of residence if they ask for any such thing, since there are administrative reasons why this matters (e.g. when you register a vehicle, the DMV needs to know what town will be charging you property tax on it).
The state is divided into 13 districts for courts, 4 of which exactly line up with 4 of CT's 8 counties: https://jud.ct.gov/directory/maps/JD/default.htm These courts are run by the state, though, so the court districts are not government entities any more than something like a DOT district would be. As you might guess, you report for jury duty only in the district where you live. The federal government definitely uses CT's counties for statistical purposes. Their borders are shown on census maps. Not sure about the GIS source you're referring to specifically. Connecticut's GIS data (https://portal.ct.gov/DEEP/GIS-and-Maps/Data/GIS-DATA) offers boundaries for both towns and counties, though they're separate shapefiles so I'm not sure how you'd say one is "between" the other and the state. It is worth noting though that maps published by the state often show town boundaries but not county boundaries (here's one example: https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/DOT/documents/dpolicy/policymaps/ref/hwymap18ps-Final.pdf?la=en) - which makes since administratively speaking, the towns are more important. On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 10:36 AM Greg Troxel <g...@lexort.com> wrote: > > Anthony Costanzo <acjame...@gmail.com> writes: > > > county. CT's counties have no associated government (anymore) but they > > are still commonly used for statistical purposes and they still have > > cultural relevance as well - you will hear references in casual > > conversations to Fairfield and Litchfield counties. Meanwhile ask any > > Connecticutter what COG they live in and most of them will probably > > answer "what's a COG". > > (t's nice to hear from someone in CT, as I have not really understood > things there, expect that it's obvious that the National Weather Service > thinks countries still exist.) > > Do you, as a CT resident, have to put down your county of residence on > any government paperwork, either state or federal? > > Or is there some notion that if a federal form asks for your county, you > can answer "That's a ridiculous question - CT has no counties" and that > is considered an OK answer? > > Do state forms uniformly decline to ask the question about county? > > How does jury duty work? When you are called, how are you sorted into > which courts you might ahve to go to? If you only have to go to courts > near you, vs the whole state, does that region align with historical > county boundaries? > > Does the federal government believe that there are no counties? Are CT > counties represented on the National Map and in the federal GIS > databases? > > Does the state of Connecticut publish maps or geodaata, and do they > think counties exist as an administrative thing between state and town? > > > (In MA, you are expected to put down a county, and jury duty is along > county lines - but we already established that MA still has counties > after talking about district attorneys, sherriffs etc.) _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
