Originally Posted by Ares96
Your two districts per state division seems a bit arbitrary if you ask me. Also, ridings can only be called that when there are three of them in a county.
However, as you mention Klamath, I will forgive and forget.
Of course, the English/Scandinavian subdivision "hundred" was originally designed to designate an area that could contribute one hundred men-at-arms for its King's army in times of war, but rapidly lost that sense of meaning. The term "hundred" was still put into use in several of the 13 Colonies, however, and I can't see them being an accurate representation of the original meaning. Indeed, it seems that in Virginia, it was mildly popular for new plantation founders to name the area around (and including) their plantation a "hundred" for no more reason than to try to relive a bit of the Old Country customs that they were used to...