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Monday, July 04, 2005

Independence Day By The Numbers

PATRIOTIC PLACES


30
Number of places nationwide with “liberty” in their name. The most populous one is Liberty, Mo. (27,982). Iowa, with four, has more of these places than any other state: Libertyville, New Liberty, North Liberty and West Liberty.

ELEVEN
Number of places that have “independence” in their name. The most populous of
these is Independence, Mo., with 112,079 residents.

FIVE
The number of places that have adopted the name “freedom.” Freedom, Calif., with 6,000 residents, has the largest population among these.

FIVE
And what could be more fitting than spending the Fourth of July in a place called “America”? There are five such places in the country, with the most populous being American Fork, Utah, population 22,876.

ONE
There is one place named “patriot” ? Patriot, Ind., with a population of 196.

Hmmmm... Thought there'd be more Patriots, didn't you? Kudos to Drudge for having this posted!

Click here: KWTX | Independence Day By The Numbers

4 Comments:

  • At Monday, July 04, 2005 9:33:00 PM, Blogger Maggie said…

    I wonder if there is any place called "Judicial Monarchy, USA." Oh wait, isn't that the official name of the territory of the 9th District Court of Appeals? ;)

     
  • At Friday, July 08, 2005 11:13:00 PM, Blogger Elizabeth said…

    grrrrrrrrrr upppppppdaaaaaaaaaaatesssss

     
  • At Saturday, July 09, 2005 3:24:00 AM, Blogger Maggie said…

    Updates! Updates! LOL, just kidding, Shannon, you should be enjoying your summer and not worrying about feeding your two Update Trolls. Although we are getting very hungry. Soon we will eat each other. ;)

     
  • At Tuesday, July 12, 2005 11:07:00 PM, Blogger Maggie said…

    Shannon! We miss ye! If you can find out when Doc is preaching, we'd loooove to expose Betsy to some of that. And I wanna hear more stories like the first baptism one! With the steaaaam rolling out from behind the curtain! He he he!

     

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