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Welcome to Columbia, Adair CO, Micropolitan Campbellsville, KY, USA? Do you notice any difference now that you know? Commentary by Ed Waggener ed@columbiamagazine You may have known it all along, or heard it first on KET, on Comment on Kentucky, as I did, that Campbellsvile is now a "Micropolitan Statistical Area." It seems news to me, as most of the Columbia leaders I've mentioned it to are either ignorant of the fact, or chauvinistically feigning ignorance of it. We haven't found out exactly how it works, so it might be that Adair County is not just in Micropolitan Campbellsville. Could be it is Balkanized for the purposes of this distinction, with parts of the county in the Campbellsville area, parts in the Glasgow one, parts in Danville area, parts in the Somerset area, and, who knows: maybe Breeding is in the Cookeville area. Used to be some in South Adair County were residents of Tennessee for purposes of attendance at Tennessee Tech. It probably is known which Micropolitan Area(s) we are in is known by someone; I just haven't found out yet for sure. Definition of Micropolitan Statistical Area The definition of Micropolitan Statistical Area in the Federal Register of Wednesday, December 27, 2000, would appear to make Adair County a part of the Campbellsville Micropolitan Area. The Federal Register gives this definition: Micropolitan Statistical Area.A Core Based Statistical Area associated with at least one urban cluster that has a population of at least 10,000, but less than 50,000. The Micropolitan Statistical Area comprises the central county or counties containing the core, plus adjacent outlying counties having a high degree of social and economic integration with the central county as measured through commuting.Campbellsville one of 16 Micropolitan Statistical Areas Campbellsville is one of 16 Kentucky towns reported by Wikopedia as Micropolitan Statistical Areas.The complete list includes: Campbellsville, Taylor County Central City, Muhlenberg County Corbin, in Laurel, Knox, and Whitley Counties Danville, Boyle County Frankfort, Franklin County Glasgow, Barren County London, Laurel County Madisonville, Hopkins County Mayfield, Graves County Maysville, Mason County Middlesborough, Bell County Mount Sterling, Montgomery County Murray, Calloway County Paducah, McCracken County Richmond-Berea, Madison County Somerset, Pulaski County Designation has been around for a long time Apparently, from the date of the Federal Register, the term Micropolitan Statistical Area has been around since antiquity, since 2000. Just hadn't heard about it until Al Cross brought it up on Comment on Kentucky, a while back. Not being central town in Micro SA might mean less clout The context was that smaller rural areas would no longer have the political clout they once did, that the General Assembly would concentrate more on the central town in the Micropolitan Statistical Areas. It didn't hurt Adair County in the last General Assembly, when over $72 million in state projects got in the budget Getting Eastern Bypass would show some clout still here If what many consider the most important highway improvement Adair County needed before those grants would now come through--for the Eastern Bypass--this session, it might mean the General Assembly focus isn't away from counties which don't have the Micropolitan designation. This is all progress, but will any of this mean anything to the overall quality of life in Adair County? Maybe. Perhaps not. If it can remembered that, on balance, "progress" means different things to different people. Progress has put us closer to Columbia traffic jam For instance, from the corner of Milltown Church Road and Edmonton Road, we find that the new interchange of KY 61 and the Louie B. Nunn Parkway now means this: We used to be five miles from traffic jams in Columbia. When the interchange is developed, we'll be less than three. That's progress. And maybe there's a lesson for Columbia in being part of Micropolitan Somewhere Else. Perhaps now we understand a tiny bit how Knifley, Breeding, Gradyville, Glens Fork and Bryant feel after losing their high schools. Related Story: Bragging rights: Merger would make Columbia 20th largest city in Kentucky This story was posted on 2006-01-14 07:37:36
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