Talk:Whatcom County, Washington

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Point Roberts

Point Roberts seems to be counted in the Census, as discussed in its article, shouldn't it be moved to the census-recognized section? Murderbike 00:48, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Looks like someone moved it. Sehome Bay (talk) 11:35, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Lummi

And what about Lummi Island and the Lummi Indian Reservation? shouldn't they be in census-recognized communities? Murderbike 17:52, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Someone moved the Lummi Reservation. Lummi Island is gone from community list. They are distinct places and should be listed separately. Sehome Bay (talk) 11:35, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

External Links

Please evaluate the link to the "Whatcom County Guide" and the link about seminars, workshops, etc. Should those links be removed? Sehome Bay (talk) 11:35, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Yes, for the most part; non-profit sites like library-directory pages, as sometiems exist, are fine, but ones carrying ad copy that are clearly private-enterprise in whose interest it is to generate hits, take 'em out for sure. "Spam, wonderful spam....".Skookum1 (talk) 15:07, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

4th regional district bordering

I don't have a map for comparison of the inland boundaries of Whatcom County vs the boundaries of the regional districts in BC; but I suspect that on the northeast, montane, border, the Okanagan-Similkameen Regional District also borders Whatcom County; I think but am not sure that the boundary between the Fraser Valley RD and the Okanagan-Similkameen one is the "divide" between the Fraser and Okanagan basins, which woudl be in the area of the Manning Park Lodge; the Whatcom-Okanogan Counties boundary is, I think, the Skagit-Chelan divide wherever that winds up being....not sure where the Pasayten Wilderness/River fits into that scheme, but when it crosses teh border it does so into the O-S, as the Pasayten is a tributary of the Similkameen...IF you can give me a specific line of longitude where the Whatcom-Okanogan boundary is I can check the BC-side map to see if it "jigs" with the Fraser-Similkameen divide....it may very well, I thought I better check though. Just to note also, that RDs are far less important in terms of governance and regional identity/cohesion in BC than counties are in the US; more relevant to governance are things like which Forests District, and to identity a loose system of "countries"/regions whose names don't correspond (usually) to the same terms as applied to regional districts, e.g. the Fraser Valley RD includes areas not part of the Fraser Valley as a region, and doesn't include all of what we mean when we say "the Fraser Valley" (which is pretty much all of the Lower Mainland except for Vancouver, Burnaby, Port Moody and the North Shore); and "Fraser Canyon" and "Fraser Valley" are mutually exclusive (other than a vague cross-over area from Hope to Yale...).Skookum1 (talk) 15:07, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

OK, the boundary between the RDOS and the FVRD is at 120-50-30 W, more or less due south of Lightning Lake; does that correspond to the Whatcom-Okanogan Counties boundary; if the latter is farther east than that, then the RDOS also borders Whatcom County. And btw some of Whatcom County is part of hte traditional territory of Canadian First Nations; those from the Chilliwack area frequented the upper Chilliwack River and also into the Maple Falls area via the Columbia Valley (the "pass" south of Cultus Lake), the Hope-area bands in the upper Skagit, and the Nlaka'pamux Thompson into the spine of the Cascades around that same boudnary I'm puzzling over; I think the Nlaka'pamux territory is more into Okanogan County though....Skookum1 (talk) 15:21, 17 November 2008 (UTC)