So, half the states have political appointees, even in the coroner's office (!), yet the other half have no data? What happened to appointing someone because they're good at their job and they're next in line?
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The other counties I'm guessing it's just hired to do a job, and there's nothing political involved.
Article says it's professional medical examiners. http://mcimaps.com/halloween-article-the-election-of-coroners-in-america/
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Oh, intereseting.
Just checked the numbers, seems NL has the same percentage of forest as Utah has
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Maine is empty. I bet 90% of the reaming 11% is bare rock.
Yeah, I know. But I have a slightly different image in mind when I think of Utah or when I think of NL, and the NL version definitely has trees.
Maine has the lowest population density in the US east of the Mississippi river. It has no major, or for that matter even minor, cities. And the overwhelming majority of the terrain sucks for farming. So, trees.
There's not that much bare rock. Fair amount of lakes. Handfull of farmland. Some towns. Probably 2-3% of the land is roads.
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Well Maine has 46879 lane miles of road which is 75444 lane km
http://blog.cubitplanning.com/2010/02/road-miles-by-state/
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/statistics/2013/hm60.cfm
The width of US interstate lanes is 7.3m.
Most roads are narrower but some roads have hard strips, hard shoulders and unused hatched off areas at junctions etc. so assume 7.3
75444x0.0073=551km2
Wiki gives the area of Maine as 91,646km2
100x551/91,646=0.6% of land covered by road pavement.
It would not be unreasonable to assume that at least an equal area is covered by verges and footpaths so 2% is quite believable.
In LA 1.4 times the area of roads is for parking
https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2015/12/parking-los-angeles-maps-study/418593/
If Maine is the same then 0.84% covered in parking lot.
http://blog.cubitplanning.com/2010/02/road-miles-by-state/
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/statistics/2013/hm60.cfm
The width of US interstate lanes is 7.3m.
Most roads are narrower but some roads have hard strips, hard shoulders and unused hatched off areas at junctions etc. so assume 7.3
75444x0.0073=551km2
Wiki gives the area of Maine as 91,646km2
100x551/91,646=0.6% of land covered by road pavement.
It would not be unreasonable to assume that at least an equal area is covered by verges and footpaths so 2% is quite believable.
In LA 1.4 times the area of roads is for parking
https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2015/12/parking-los-angeles-maps-study/418593/
If Maine is the same then 0.84% covered in parking lot.
I can't tell, is that just paved public roads? Maine has some significant miles of unpaved roads on private land.
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