Georgia plucks Hemp — off map!
Poetry Tulip has vanished. So have Due West and
Po Biddy Crossroads. Cloudland and Roosterville are gone, too. A total of 488
communities have been erased from the latest version of Georgia’s official
map, victims of too few people and too many letters of type.
CHATTOOGAVILLE, Georgia (AP) — Poetry Tulip
has vanished. So have Due West and Po Biddy Crossroads. Cloudland and
Roosterville are gone, too.
A total of 488 communities have been erased from the latest version of Georgia’s official map, victims of too few people and too many letters of type.
Georgia’s Department of Transportation, which drew the new map, said that the goal was to make it clearer and less cluttered and that many of the dropped communities were mere “placeholders,” generally with fewer than 2,500 people. Some are unincorporated and so small they are not even recognized by the Census Bureau.
Gone are such places as Dewy Rose, Hemp, Experiment, Retreat, Wooster, Sharp Top and Chattoogaville, a spot in far northwestern Georgia that consists of little more than a two-truck volunteer fire department, a few farmhouses and a country store where locals fill up their gas tanks.
“We’re not under obligation to show every single community,” department spokeswoman Karlene Barron said. “While we want to, there’s a balancing act. And the map was getting illegible.”
That doesn’t ease the snub to the people who live in those places.
I have to admit — once in a while — it’s nice living somewhere that no one can find. But, I still wouldn’t wish the name of La Cieneguilla to disappear.
A total of 488 communities have been erased from the latest version of Georgia’s official map, victims of too few people and too many letters of type.
Georgia’s Department of Transportation, which drew the new map, said that the goal was to make it clearer and less cluttered and that many of the dropped communities were mere “placeholders,” generally with fewer than 2,500 people. Some are unincorporated and so small they are not even recognized by the Census Bureau.
Gone are such places as Dewy Rose, Hemp, Experiment, Retreat, Wooster, Sharp Top and Chattoogaville, a spot in far northwestern Georgia that consists of little more than a two-truck volunteer fire department, a few farmhouses and a country store where locals fill up their gas tanks.
“We’re not under obligation to show every single community,” department spokeswoman Karlene Barron said. “While we want to, there’s a balancing act. And the map was getting illegible.”
That doesn’t ease the snub to the people who live in those places.
I have to admit — once in a while — it’s nice living somewhere that no one can find. But, I still wouldn’t wish the name of La Cieneguilla to disappear.
Posted: Sun - December 10, 2006 at 01:21 PM