Counties colored by their distance from Washington DC.

Showing counties by their date of formation. In a few cases I used 'settled' dates. For San Francisco I used the date of the establishment of the Mission. The data is from Wikipedia. I grabbed the list of counties, then grabbed the wikipedia page for each county and pulled out …

Reading Wikipedia I came on this page List of U.S. counties named after prominent Confederate historical figures And so I made a map of those counties.

I plan to make the source data available, at some point, but let me know if you would like it sooner.

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