Johnston County Reclassification: Rural to Urban

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  1. DWK

    DWK Well-Known Member

    FYI: The following article discusses the possible “reclassification” of Johnston County from a “rural county” to an “urban county” in the coming years. Make of it what you will.


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  2. jesse82nc

    jesse82nc Well-Known Member

    Interesting information. Many counties in NC are "Urban" though.

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    https://files.nc.gov/ncosbm/documents/files/2018ACSNC.pdf

    Even though that one map shows entire counties as rural or urban, the Census team generally classifies areas or clusters as urban, not entire couties. The map just means that some counties are more than 50.1% urban, not the entire county.

    https://www.census.gov/programs-sur...e/geo-areas/urban-rural/2010-urban-rural.html
    https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/geography/guidance/geo-areas/urban-rural.html
    https://www.federalregister.gov/doc...n-areas-for-the-2020-census-proposed-criteria

    https://mtgis-portal.geo.census.gov...ndex.html?id=94c61c34e2674a229fda427342e0367a

    There are no proposed changes in the 2020 Rural/Urban areas in our area based on the above official map.

    These are the current Urban areas.
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  3. DWK

    DWK Well-Known Member

    Thanks for the information and clear explanation. So, it does seem like an “urban” classification simply affects certain areas of the county, already experiencing population and business growth, which in turn may attract more business as these areas continue to grow. (Whether or not they grow to become fully developed, “urban cores” in their own right, is probably not the issue. In other words, just because they are legally classified as “urban”, they may in reality, resemble “suburban” areas more.) So, some of the reasons for “rural” to “urban” classifications may be just semantics, in the sense that new, larger businesses (Pharm, high-tech, etc) seeking to relocate to an area, are unlikely to consider counties classified as strictly “rural”, since strictly rural areas rarely have the infrastructure available to support larger businesses and their needs. I imagine that this “urban” classification is just a way for a county to signal that specific areas in a county are more conducive to development than others. This online article then, as it is written, fails to include these important details to JoCo readers.
     
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  4. Hught

    Hught Well-Known Member

    One light orange spot in my current county, Clinton
     
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  5. DWK

    DWK Well-Known Member

    The cows in your county appear to be safe for the time being. :)
     
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  6. Hught

    Hught Well-Known Member

    Except from the bears, coyotes, & snakes. Neighbors, if you can call them that, use donkeys to protect
     
  7. DWK

    DWK Well-Known Member

    Bears? Well, forget a “rural” classification for your county. They’ll have to come up with “hinterland” or “boondocks” instead! ;)
     
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  8. Wayne Stollings

    Wayne Stollings Well-Known Member

    Nah, traffic was brought to a halt at Streets of Southpoint two years in a row several years ago due to a bear stopping in the road and then going through the parking lot.
     
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  9. DWK

    DWK Well-Known Member

    It’s those rascal suburban bears again breaking into the mall to steal Cinnabons at the food court! Canada had the same problem with bears breaking into bakeries, except their bears were classified as “rural” bears, and not “suburban” bears.

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  10. Wayne Stollings

    Wayne Stollings Well-Known Member

    The bear answered to the name "Yogi" according to an official identified as a Mr. Ranger Smith ......
     
  11. DWK

    DWK Well-Known Member

    “Hey, hey, hey!”……two of my favorite Yogi “bears”!

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  12. DWK

    DWK Well-Known Member

    Streets of Southpoint could really use a Ranger Smith though, to protect all those Cinnabons and picnic baskets……
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  13. jesse82nc

    jesse82nc Well-Known Member

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  14. DWK

    DWK Well-Known Member

    That Jellystone campground looks surprisingly peaceful, and those “treetop cabins” they’ve got are pretty sweet. It was also thoughtful of them to build an ample staircase like that for foraging bears.

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  15. DWK

    DWK Well-Known Member

    The girl you NEED to battle all those suburban bears!

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  16. Wayne Stollings

    Wayne Stollings Well-Known Member

    Do NOT mess with her dogs or she WILL attack and knock you off your wall ......
     
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