Sorry Charlie, but your "fun fact" ain't even a factoid. Allen County is not even in the running. Here are just a few east of the Mississippi counties larger than Allen, even if coastal and lakeshore counties have their water areas subtracted. OH: Ross, Licking, Ashtabula ; VT: 10 of the state's 14 counties; MA: Berkshire, Franklin, Middlesex, Plymouth; Worcester; ME: Aroostook (6829 sqm, over 10 times the size of Allen), Washington, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset, Franklin, Oxford; NH: Carroll, Coos, Grafton, Merrimack, Hillsborough; TN: Shelby, Hardeman. FL: Miami-Dade (land), Palm Beach (land), Polk, Collier. Even Georgia, which is worse than Indiana in having an excessive number of counties--let's call that "overshiring"--, has at least three counties larger than Allen. NY, half again as large as IN but with only 62 counties in that area (as opposed to IN's 92), has at least a dozen counties larger in area than Allen.