announcements

04/06/2014: New: an improved version of your travels projected onto Google maps. There are links to this feature on the scoreboard and your user page.

12/01/2013: New feature: Google maps + driving directions + county lines + county analysis tool. Great for planning county hunting trips.

11/02/2013: added total rows to user page, made RGB text values editable on the legend page

10/22/2013: fixed issue entering counties from mob-rule.com domain

10/19/2013: fixed an issue with the legend for new users

10/12/2013: Welcome to the redesigned county counting site at www.mob-rule.com . New features include:

• using cookies so you don't need to type/remember your password so often, and remove plaintext passwords from URLs
• more prominent links to navigate to the parts of the site you like
• county lines overlay on Google Maps now uses API v3 and is more awesomer

As always report any issues or feature requests for the new site to mobrule@gmail.com. If you really really want to keep using the old site, it is still available at alpha.mob-rule.com.

08/29/2013: Wrangell/Petersburg update for Alaska is complete(*) Here's what you need to know:

• I erased the record of your visits to the former Wrangell-Petersburg Borough -- you must reenter your data for Petersburg and/or Wrangell Boroughs.
• I changed the record of your visits to Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan Census Area to Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area
• (*) - not quite complete. There are still a few places in the site that still refer to "Outer Ketchikan" and some maps don't reflect the new boundaries of Ketchikan Gateway Borough and Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area.

New beta features 07/14/2013: (1) you can now choose the order that your legend colors/descriptions appear on your national maps (thanks to Larry Wymer for the feature suggestion; (2) when an entry page loads, it remembers the last color you were using on your previous entry page

Update: 07/04/2013: Earlier this week, the formerly independent city of Bedford, Virginia was absorbed into Bedford County, Virginia. If you haven't been there yet, now you don't have to go!

welcome

Always ones to let our competitive nature get the better of us, we (that's Bert, Mark, Chris, Marty, and all our like-minded friends) are keeping track of all the U.S. and Canadian counties we've been to.

The rules are simple: you visit a county, then you count it. To visit a county, just cross the plane of the county line. Usually, you visit a county in a car, but it is possible to visit counties by biking, hiking, or even skiing. Generally, we don't count flying over a county, especially flying in a commercial jet airplane (it's just too hard to see the signs that say "Entering Beaufort County").

• The scoring so far: U.S. | Canada
• Browse the Map Room
• County lines imposed on Google maps (now includes Canada!)
• Some information on the counties and county equivalents of Canada and Mexico.
• The FAQ (Frequently asked questions about whether certain highways go through certain counties).
• Think you know your counties? Try the county quiz.
• County-by-county results for the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election
• Links to county results of 2004 and 2008 U.S. Presidential Election.

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links

Some like-minded and related sites:

The Extra Miler Club The County Highpointers club, whose members seek to visit the highest point in each county. The Clinched Highway Maps site. J. Stephen Conn's County Counting Blog. Dave Schul's County Collection (Dave is stricter than most of us -- he only counts a county after he's visited the county seat) Adam Froehlig's County Counting Site. Greg Coniglio's county counting site. A History of County Lines Many interactive atlases of the United States. Most of the sites below print county lines on the maps, too. Mapquest Mapblast Topo Zone maps.huge.info maps.huge.info Google Earth (free download) can show county lines superimposed on satellite images of the Earth. County quizzes at purposegames.com by Walker Willingham