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Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jan-2022 12:21:07 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

TIL en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedway… is an independent town inside the bounds of what is otherwise Indianapolis. It is named after en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indianap… , which is the Indy 500 race course, and mostly runs the race course, but also has some chemical plants and engine factories and race course support industry.

This feels quintessentially US and very 20th century.

Marion County is basically Indianapolis, with a handfuls of holes in it for independent towns and cities.
town in Wayne Township, Marion County, Indiana

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- LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jan-2022 15:20:00 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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  @clacke That's very interesting that #Indianapolis has an incorporated industrial enclave.
  
  Los Angeles County also has a few cities that were incorporated as industrial areas inside or adjacent to neighboring residential cities, such as "Vernon":{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon,_California} and "City of Commerce":{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerce,_California}. But As far as I am aware, none are complete enclaves.
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  1. Vernon, California
    
    Vernon is a city five miles (8.0 km) south of downtown Los Angeles, California, the nearest city to downtown Los Angeles. The population was 112 at the 2010 United States Census, the least of any incorporated city in the state. Its population nearly doubled to 222 by the 2020 census, making it the second least populous city in the state after Amador City, whose population grew only slightly—from 185 in the 2010 census, to 200 in the 2020 census.The city is primarily composed of industrial areas and touts itself as "exclusively industrial". Meatpacking plants and warehouses are common. As of 2006, there were no parks in the city. History Vernon is the site of the Battle of La Mesa on January 9, 1847, when General Stephen W. Kearny again defeated General José María Flores the day after the Battle of Rio San Gabriel. Accepting defeat, General Flores fled southeast to Sonora, while Major Pico headed north into the San Gabriel Mountains with a hundred Californios. This ended hostilities in Alta California during the Mexican-American War of 1846–1848. By the dawn of the 20th century, it was a stretch...
  2. Commerce, California
    
    Commerce is a city located in southeast Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 12,823 at the 2010 census, up from 12,568 at the 2000 census. It is usually referred to as the City of Commerce to distinguish it from the common noun. It is bordered by Vernon on the west, Los Angeles on the northwest, East Los Angeles on the north, Montebello on the east, Downey and Bell Gardens on the south, and Maywood on the southwest. The Los Angeles River forms part of its southwestern boundary, and the Rio Hondo separates it from Downey. Commerce is served by the Long Beach and Santa Ana freeways, as well as the Metrolink commuter rail service at the Commerce station. History In the 19th century, the area was part of Antonio Maria Lugo's Rancho San Antonio. Its conversion to an industrial area began in 1887, when the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway built its main line through the area. The ranch remained intact until Arcadia Bandini de Stearns Baker, reputedly once the wealthiest woman in Los Angeles, sold some of it around the turn of the 20th century. The Atchison, Topeka...
- Efraim Flashner (efraim@tooot.im)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jan-2022 18:21:04 UTC Efraim Flashner
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  @clacke
  Paying taxes to support town infrastructure and schools is for fools who don't create their own townships.
  
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- Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jan-2022 18:30:05 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
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  Map of Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana. The county is roughly a square. Indianapolis is marked in red and that fills most of the square. The second grey hole from the left is Speedway.
  
  The process that merged the Indianapolis and county administrations and left these self-governing holes is described in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unigov .
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- Efraim Flashner (efraim@tooot.im)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jan-2022 18:35:09 UTC Efraim Flashner
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  I wonder if Indianapolis has thought about putting in a toll road between it and the speedway. 🤔
  
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- Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jan-2022 18:37:25 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
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  @efraim Population is 11000, permanent audience capacity is 250000, total capacity is 400000.
  
  Toll gates would benefit Indianapolis a lot. =)
  
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- wind (windcask@libretooth.gr)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jan-2022 19:22:22 UTC wind
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  @clacke that is one big gas station
  
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