Talk:List of micropolitan statistical areas by state

message: I'm not sure Normal, Illinois qualifies as a micropolitan area.  Most micropolitan areas consist of one or more core cities of population ranging between 10,000 and 50,000, along with the county or counties in which the core cities are located.  Because Normal is located in the same county as Bloomington, Illinois, I believe it's part of the Bloomington metropolitan area... not a separate micropolis.  -- SwissCelt 04:22, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Normal?

message: ... but I'm having some problem getting the endnotes to work correctly.  If anyone has any idea how to make it work, or has a better idea of how to indicate multi-state micropolitan areas, please help! -- Tony 18:15, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: List is complete!

message: I'm going through this list and adding the category tag to the rest of the micropolitan areas.  (Ohio and Alabama were already done.)  Question: When there are two cities joined to create a micropolitan area, should I put the tag on both cities?  I'm leaving the tags off until I get someone else's opinion. --Jbjalbrz
:I'd say put it on both.  In many of these multi-city areas, it's difficult to determine which is the "main" core city (for example, see discussion of Findlay and Tiffin-Fostoria above), and there's no reason not to include a multi-city simply because of indecision over which gets the tag. -- SwissCelt 02:19, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Multi-city micropolitan areas

message: It would probably be a good idea to check the list of micropolitan areas at http://www.census.gov/population/estimates/metro_general/List1.txt against the list at 
http://www.census.gov/population/estimates/metro_general/List5.txt. It appears the latter is missing quite a few. I came across this when I was working on Idaho micropolitan areas. It struck me as a bit odd that Mountain Home was originally listed here, but the considerably larger communities of Idaho Falls and Pocatello were not. I took care of that.
I think it also makes sense to list the micropolitan areas along with the counties they encompass, and group them in the state where the principal city is located. See what I did for Idaho as an example. --Faustus37 19:19, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Wouldn't Idaho Falls and Pocatello be the cores of metropolitan areas, instead of micropolitan areas?  I note their populations are each greater than 50,000. -- SwissCelt 20:53, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ack, I seriously read that wrong. Will go to fix. --Faustus37 23:03, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Discrepancies

message: The article says micropolitan areas are defined as those that surround "a core city with population between 10,000 and 49,999". How strictly is that applied? I notice Fairbanks, Alaska is on the Census Bureau list as a metropolitan area, despite having core city population the same as Juneau, ca. 30,000, while two of the micropolitan areas given for the state, Ketchikan, Alaska and Kodiak, Alaska, don't make the lower bound so in theory shouldn't be there. (And they're not even the largest towns in the state under 10,000, either.) New Math? Zero Gravitas (話す • 投稿) 09:16, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not new math, government math. ;-)  I gave up trying to determine rhyme or reason for the Census Bureau's demographic calculations back when the concept of the metropolitan area was first applied.  At that time, they had no trouble consolidating San Francisco with Oakland and San Jose in a CMSA, but it was a decade before Cleveland was consolidated with Akron, and Youngstown still isn't consolidated (and, given its declining population, probably never will).  In essence, the criteria seem to deviate by state. -- SwissCelt 15:25, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: A question on criteria