>2) There are 109 counties that have no 911 service of any kind at all,
>>a regular 7 or 10 digit number must be used to summon help.
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>That number does surprise me.
Doesn't surprise me much. There are over 3000 county-equivalents* in the US, so this means that only 3 percent of them are without 911 service. But most of the 109 counties in question are bound to be very extremely sparsely populated, so I would hazard a guess that their overall share of the US population is closer to 0.03 percent than it is to 3 percent.
Most states have counties, but Lousiana calls them "parishes" and Alaska has "boroughs". Other county-equivalents include the District of Columbia, and Virginia's "independent cities".
Bob Goudreau Cary, NC