[Talk-us] Retagging hamlets in the US

[Paul Johnson]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 4:18 PM, John F. Eldredge <john at jfeldredge.com>
wrote:

>   In some cases, these "hamlets" may be separate legal entities, even
> though surrounded by the city.  For example, Davidson County, Tennessee,
> and the city of Nashville merged in 1963 into a shared Metropolitan
> government.
>
However, six smaller municipalities within the county chose to keep partial
> autonomy. Growth of Nashville means that only road signs show that you have
> crossed over into these municipalities, but they maintain their own police
> forces.
>
 So, kinda like NYC and the boroughs?  Or more on par with, say, Metro
Oregon <http://www.oregonmetro.gov/>?  Or is both somehow a thing that
exists?
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