Description of Map 1.
Metropolitan, Micropolitan, and Non Core Counties. Non-Metropolitan counties cover about 75% of the U.S. land area. This is a map of the U.S., with inset maps of Alaska and Hawaii. One-quarter inch equals 125 miles. Non-metropolitan, non-core counties are shown in dark gray. They have no urban cluster of at least 10,000 people. There are 1,360 of these counties, encompassing 1,907,653 square miles. 19,364,164 people live in non-metropolitan, non-core counties and 4,028,333 have a disability. The largest concentrations of non-metropolitan, non-core counties are in Alaska, Oregon, Nevada, Idaho, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Minnesota, Michigan, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Maine. Non-metropolitan, micropolitan statistical area counties are shown in light gray. They have at least one urban cluster of 10,000 to 49,999 people. There are 692 of these counties, encompassing 732,712 square miles. 29,477,802 people live in non-metropolitan, non-core counties and 5,625,928 have a disability. The largest concentrations of non-metropolitan, micropolitan statistical area counties are in Hawaii, Oregon, Nevada, Wyoming, New Mexico, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Minnesota, Illinois, Ohio, Louisiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, Pennsylvania, New York, New Hampshire and Vermont. Metropolitan statistical area counties are shown in white. They have at least one urbanized area of 50,000 or more people. There are 1,089 of these counties, encompassing 897,095 square miles. 232,579,940 people live metropolitan statistical area counties and 40,091,987 have a disability. The largest concentrations of metropolitan statistical area counties are in Washington, Oregon, California, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Missouri, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware and Massachusetts. For more detail, go to http://rtc.ruralinstitute.umt.edu/geography/counties.htm . Map Data Source: American Factfinder Summary Files 1 & 3; Census 2000 TIGER Cartographic Boundary Files; Census 2000 DVD Summary File 1; OMB 11/2004 Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Area Definitions, http://www.census.gov/population/www/estimates/metrodef.html End of description.
