My County Collection
As of July 2025, I have been to at least 68.5%, or 2,153 out of 3,143, county equivalents in the United States. The map below shows where I've been in the continental U.S. Counties in red I visited for the first time in 2025. Older counties are grouped by decade; darker indicates a more recent decade. I don't count anything prior to the 1980s.
I have visited all counties in ten states: Connecticut (last county visited in the 1980s),
Delaware (1995),
Rhode Island (2001),
Pennsylvania (2004),
New Hampshire (2006),
New York (2007),
Ohio (2012),
Massachusetts (2017),
Vermont (2017), and
Indiana (2019).
I have one county left to visit in Kansas and just three in Nebraska. Texas is the state where I've been to the greatest number of counties (204). On the other hand, I have visited zero counties in Alaska, one in Hawaii, and two in Arizona.
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Northeast and Midwest
I have lived in Pennsylvania, New York, and Indiana, and my grandparents retired to New Hampshire. Thus, all states that I have completed are in this region.
(Darker colors indicate counties that I've spent more time in.)
Southeast
Driving several times to New Orleans has helped me make good progress on this region. But there is still a long way to go, especially in North Carolina and Florida.
West
Storm chasing has helped me make great inroads with the Great Plains states, and I'm more than 90% done with South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas. Although there are relatively few counties in states west of the Rockies, the distances are vast, and they are far from home.