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Municipalities with the ten largest land areas

Rank

Municipality

State

Land Area (square miles)*

  1

Sitka (city and borough)

AK

2874

  2

Juneau (city and borough)

AK

2717

  3

Anchorage (municipality)

AK

1697

  4

Jacksonville (city)

FL

  758


  5

Anaconda-Deer Lodge (county**)


MT


  737

  6

Butte-Silver Bow (county**)

MT

  716

  7

Oklahoma City (city)

OK

  607

  8

Houston (city)

TX

  579

  9

Phoenix (city)

AZ

  475

10

Nashville-Davidson (city-county)

TN

  473

  * rounded to the nearest whole number
** functions as a municipality

Municipalities with the ten smallest land areas

Rank

Municipality

State

Land Area (square miles)

  1

Lithium (village)

MO

0.001924

  2

Huetter (city)

ID

0.010614

  3

Clayton (city)

ID

0.012825

  4

River Forest (town)

IN

0.016046

  5

Mobile City (city)

TX

0.016455

  6

Shady Grove (town)

OK

0.018082

  7

Lotsee (town)

OK

0.019095

  8

Jacksonburg (village)

OH

0.019496

  9

Tenney (city)

MN

0.022204

10

Poplar Hills (city)

KY

0.023245

Source:
2002 Census of the United States. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census

 

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